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Eastern Front Essentials - from detail to broad brush!
A Listmania! list by RW (Sheffield, UK)

1. The Forgotten Soldier (CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS) by Guy Sajer

The list author says:
	"Remains, for me, the definitive precursor to a wider interest in the subject of the Eastern Front campaigns. Graphic and sweeping in its coverage."

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2. Hitler's Panzers East: World War II Reinterpreted by R.H.S. Stolfi

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	"A classic "What if?" scenario. The world might well have been a different place! Fortunately, we are where we are!"

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3. Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942 (Modern War Studies) by David M. Glantz

The list author says:
	"A compelling and detailed narrative that illustrates both the quality of the German military leadership and the inevitability of defeat by the Soviet's, despite ostensibly catastophic losses."

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4. Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia, 1941 by David M. Glantz

The list author says:
	"Barbarossa 1941 - Glantz once again relates the sweep of a major campaign with considerable, yet accessible detail. The authority."

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5. Hitler's Greatest Defeat: The Collapse of Army Group Centre, June 1944 by Paul Adair

The list author says:
	"Adair's classic account of the rout of German forces caused by Operation Bagration illuminates the sweep of Soviet success for mortals such as we whilst losing no authority as a brilliant study (IMO."

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6. Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front by Gunter K. Koschorrek

The list author says:
	"Based on literal sleeve notes, this one takes provides the kind of detail that Guy Sajer conveyed with such eloquence. Corroboration of the hell of it all."

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7. Berlin Dance of Death by Helmut Altner

The list author says:
	"Altner is slow at first, but you are gradually absorbed into a compelling and moving first hand account of the death throes of the doomed Reich."

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8. When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler by David M. Glantz

The list author says:
	"An epic and engrossing account of the Red Army's march to victory after initial set-backs. Wonderful context for more in-depth reading."

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9. Stopped at Stalingrad: Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942-43 (Modern War Studies) by Joel S. A. Hayward

The list author says:
	"A revealing account of the centrality of air power issues to the inevitability of the German defeat. Scholarly and detailed in its treatment."

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10. Through Hell for Hitler: The Dramatic First-hand Account of Fighting on the Eastern Front with the Wehrmacht in World War II by Henry Metelmann

The list author says:
	"Written in a signal box in SE England. In some ways it seems too closely to parallel the style of Guy Sajer's account, but nonetheless readable."

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11. Red Storm on the Reich by Christopher Duffy

The list author says:
	"Detailed and accessible description of the Soviet conquest of Germany. An excellent account."

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12. Last Laurels: The German Defence of Upper Silesia, January-May 1945 by Georg Gunter

The list author says:
	"Fantasic detail. Expensive, but worthwhile for Eastern Front addicts!"

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13. The Forsaken Army (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Heinrich Gerlach

The list author says:
	"Who'd be a landser! A moving and recommended novelisation of suffering and struggle from one of the 6th's few survivors."

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14. The Battle of Kursk: Operation Citadel 1943 (Penguin Classic Military History) by Robin Cross

The list author says:
	"Not gripping, but certainly a useful/readable account of the pivotal role of the German failure in the battles for the Kursk salient and their ultimate part in the attritional defeat of the Germany."

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