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skittlesareyum47 said:
If anyone has read any good WWII Eastern front books call 'em out! Right now I am reading my first on the Eastern front called "Stalingrad" by Antony Beevor. I can't say if it is good or not yet because I barely got into it just yet. Any suggested reading from Devs?
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'Stalingrad' is biased and is not academic in any sense. It's a story book written to sell and entertain.

I haven't read a book on the Eastern Front that did not remain neutral, but I have some other interesting books relevant to that time period and the Soviet Union. (That is not to say that there are no books neutral on the Eastern Front)

H I S T O R Y O F T H E C O M M U N I S T P A R T Y O F T H E S O V I E T U N I O N (B O L S H E V I K S) http://www.marx2mao.com/Other/HCPSU39NB.html


The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939

Stalin: Man of History - Ian Grey
 
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It doesn't pertain directly to the battle of Stalingrad (although it is mentioned in the book a few times) but The Forgotten Soldier By Guy Sajer is a first hand memoir of the war in the east.

I know it's not about Stalingrad guys, I just figured it was still relevant to the idea of Eastern Front ww2.
 
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Craig, William. Enemy at the Gates...

I read this back in high-school, which was a few years ago :).

I really liked it back then... haven't re-read it, however.

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Clark, Alan. Barbarossa...

It is quite detailed in its overview of the Eastern front from Barbarossa to the fall of Berlin.

Oh... and a must is Erich von Manstein's (the dude that tried to rescue the 6th army in the winter of 1943) book, Lost Victories.
 
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+1 Manstein

The topic has been covered a number of times in the History section, for example:

http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/showthread.php?t=24655
http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/showthread.php?t=39869

Then there is of course the Red Orchestra bibliography right here :)
http://www.redorchestragame.com/index.php?categoryid=3&p13_sectionid=5&p13_fileid=41

The current opinion is that Glantz's and Jason Mark's books are authoritative on Stalingrad.

My personal favourite on the Eastern Front is Tsouras's (not Newton's "Panzer Operations", which IMO does not have such good maps) edit of the debriefs by Raus called "Panzers on the Eastern Front: General Erhard Raus and his Panzer Divisions in Russia, 1941-1945". (In general, many of the debriefs are available on-line, for example: http://www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/WW2-GerPer.html)

More from the German perspective: I would also like to mention Douglas Nash's "Hells Gate" and George Nipe's "Last Victory in Russia".
 
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skittlesareyum47 said:
If anyone has read any good WWII Eastern front books call 'em out! Right now I am reading my first on the Eastern front called "Stalingrad" by Antony Beevor. I can't say if it is good or not yet because I barely got into it just yet. Any suggested reading from Devs?
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Yes it's very good.

"The Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer is also a must read. Incredible "war biography" of a young kid (think he was 16 or 17 can't remember) thrust onto the Eastern front as part of the Grossdeutschland division. Just look it up on amazon and some of the reviews
 
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"Sniper on the Easter Front" is one of the best books on the war in the east that I've ever read, better even than Guy Sajer's "Forgotten Soldier" OK it's not about Stalingrad, but so what.

[url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sniper-Eastern-Front-Memoirs-Allerberger/dp/1844153177[/URL]

It's simply unputdownable, totally griping from start to finish, here's a link read the reviews and get yourself a copy from Amazon! Be warned though, there's some very nasty stuff in this book, especially the flare gun rape and torture of captured German soldiers towards the end.
 
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LemoN said:
I know, but the first two books are out, right?
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Yep, they are indeed. Huge amount of detail in them. I've known David for years, traded research materials, read many of his books, papers and journals. He has got hung up on other projects before he finishes off the third volume and gets that to print.
 
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[TW]Wilsonam said:
Yep, they are indeed. Huge amount of detail in them. I've known David for years, traded research materials, read many of his books, papers and journals. He has got hung up on other projects before he finishes off the third volume and gets that to print.
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OOps!

There's also Absolute War by Chris Bellamy
and The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze
 
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