I spent most of today doing this not only for me but for other fans of the Eastern Front.

After I ger Island of Fire in,I amwanting to get these titles next. I was wondering if an yone has read any of the following and what their opinions of them were?

They are:

"Red Army Tank Commanders: The Armored Guards" By: Richard N. Armstrong.

"Deadlock Before Moscow: Army Group Center 1942-1943." By: Franz Kurowski

"Waffen SS Knights and their Battles." By: Peter Mooney.

"The Battle of Stalingrad: The Battle For the Factories." By:: Hans Wijers. I KNOW Wijers is a good author but I have not read this book yet and would like anything I can get from anyone who has read this book.

"Armies of the Bear vol.1.: Sovier Rifle Divisions 1917-1957." By: Michael Aranzini.

Im particularly keen on any info and opinions on these last two titles as I want to get them after "Island of Fire."

Any info and opinions would help. Thanks and best regards--C.

 

Fall of Hitlers Fortess City: Konisgberg looked interesting so I checked it out on Amazon. Reviews were mixed but the line in Booklist - the source libraries and the like use to pick books - caught my attention.
'The ruined city, renamed Kaliningrad, was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1946, and it is now one of Lithuania's more prosperous municipalities.' ??????
Did something happen to the Kaliningrad Oblast? The book was published in 2007, well after Lithuania split from the old USSR.
I've read Unguary's Battle of Budapest and found it a big heavy going, probably loses something in translation,

 

Operation Citadel: A Text and Photo Album, Vol.1. The South. By: J. Restayn & N. Moller Contains 702 pics and is 460 pages

Operation Citadel: A Text and Photo Album, Vol 2 The North.

These are two of the best photo collections of the eastern front I have ever seen.

 

Red Army Tank Commanders profiles the six longest serving generals who took charge of the six guards tank army's. Tells the story of each general and there battles and how they took command of these tank army's and there role on the fronts they served on.

The author Mr Armstong, a colonel in the U.S Army, served in military intelligence since 1969.

Over all a well written book which I found nice in the terms of getting info on other than the big generals we all know about.


Deadlock Before Moscow by Franz Kurowski, he uses eye witness accounts and war diaries to tell the events of that year.

As we all know after Moscow a good number of authors moved on to Stalingrad and I always wanted a good book on the central front of that year and thanks to Franz Kurowski that gap is now filled.

Read this one many years ago carl, as I remember I enjoyed this book as it shows the central front did not go static after Moscow.

 

Thank you LostW, Vet, Richard,

Richard, a big thanks for this MAte. I like the sounds of the Red Army Tank Commanders book and sounds like what I need. Franz Kurowiskis book also sounds very good. I have a few of his titles and those were very helpful in my needs.

I found a copy of his book for sale at a bookstore in Austin, TX-not terribly far from here;-)) Im going to order it tomorrow.

Thanks Mate ;-))

 

Im breaking down cause I can't wait so im ordering Island of Fire tomorrow. Does anyone know where I can find a copy of either the Russian Tank Commanders book and or the Armies of the Bear vol 1 book? I tried googling it-came up nada-and also looked at Amazon-and nada.

 

Carl, i looked and found both on amazon

 

It's not. Very, very little by Kurowski is. It's terribly referenced, written in a sort of Nazi-superman heroic style, is very short on fact. If you really, really must have a book on Velikie Luki, then go for it, but before you invest, it's probably worth reading the threads at Feldgrau, Axis History Forum and Panzer Archiv (where he's known 'affectionately' as Evil K).

See e.g.

Axis History Forum • View topic - Kurowski ===== I SHALL RETURN ???!!!

Axis History Forum • View topic - Need Franz Kurowski Biography

Caveat emptor...

 

Hi Jason, Halder, thanks to you both for the additional. I got lucky and found my first three main titleslisted at Aberdeen-b ut Aberdeen is a bit expensive for Jason Marks book. The other prices look good but ill shop around a bit and et any interested now prices. This means i'll be heading next to Amazon to see what prices on titles I can find there-and will list them here.

 

My apologies if I list titles already listed by others and myself but I don't have proper time to double check. Im going to list some newly discovered titles and the Aberdeen prices. Thenif I can, ill look around in the coming days for prices of same titles from other dealers and will post them here if anyone is interested?

I got a reply by PM to a question I posted in another book thread and someone wants the new titles I found listed-so I will do so now>

More Eastern Front titles. None covering Air and Sea warfare.

Crumbling Empire: The German Defeat in the East 1944. By: Samuel Mitcham. $27.50.

Ostfront 1944. By: Alex Buchner. $30.00. This book studies defensive battles such as: Cherkassy, Tarnopol, Bobruisk, Crimea, Vitebsk, Brody, Belgrade and Kischnev.

Stumbling Collosses: The Red Army on the Eve of WWII. By: David Glantz. $40.00. Includes complete Soviet OrBats.

Stalingrad: The Defeat of the German 6th Army. By: Paul Carell. $30.00.

The Battle For Moscow. By: Col. Albert Seaton. $10.00

Zhukov At the Odor: The Decisive Battle For Berlin. $100.00. By: Tony Le Tissier.

The trilogy by: Werner Haupt each is $35.00. Army Group North: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945, Army Group Center: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945, Army Group South: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945.

Assault on Moscow 1941, The Offensive, the Battle, the Setback. By: Werner Haupt. $35.00.

Eastern Front Drama 1944. By: Rolf Heinze. $51.00. About Operation Bagration-the breach in German lines for hundreds of miles, & the destruction of Army Group Center.

Forgotten Battles of the German-Soviet War. By: David Glantz. $19.00.

Zhukovs Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars 1942. By: David Glantz. $40.00. Zhukovs attempt at dislodging the German forces west of Moscow.

The Battle of Kursk. By: David Glantz. $35.00.

In Deadly Combat: A German Soldiers Memoir of the Eastern Front. By: Gottlob Bidermann. $20.00. Author saw action in the Crimea, Sebastopol, Leningrad, the Kurland Pocket, and his time in various Gulags as an unwilling ""guest"" of the hosting Russians.

More later.

 

My apologies if I list titles already listed by others and myself but I don't have proper time to double check. Im going to list some newly discovered titles and the Aberdeen prices. Thenif I can, ill look around in the coming days for prices of same titles from other dealers and will post them here if anyone is interested?

I got a reply by PM to a question I posted in another book thread and someone wants the new titles I found listed-so I will do so now>

More Eastern Front titles. None covering Air and Sea warfare.

Crumbling Empire: The German Defeat in the East 1944. By: Samuel Mitcham. $27.50.

Ostfront 1944. By: Alex Buchner. $30.00. This book studies defensive battles such as: Cherkassy, Tarnopol, Bobruisk, Crimea, Vitebsk, Brody, Belgrade and Kischnev.

Stumbling Collosses: The Red Army on the Eve of WWII. By: David Glantz. $40.00. Includes complete Soviet OrBats.

Stalingrad: The Defeat of the German 6th Army. By: Paul Carell. $30.00.

The Battle For Moscow. By: Col. Albert Seaton. $10.00

Zhukov At the Odor: The Decisive Battle For Berlin. $100.00. By: Tony Le Tissier.

The trilogy by: Werner Haupt each is $35.00. Army Group North: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945, Army Group Center: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945, Army Group South: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945.

Assault on Moscow 1941, The Offensive, the Battle, the Setback. By: Werner Haupt. $35.00.

Eastern Front Drama 1944. By: Rolf Heinze. $51.00. About Operation Bagration-the breach in German lines for hundreds of miles, & the destruction of Army Group Center.

Forgotten Battles of the German-Soviet War. By: David Glantz. $19.00.

Zhukovs Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars 1942. By: David Glantz. $40.00. Zhukovs attempt at dislodging the German forces west of Moscow.

The Battle of Kursk. By: David Glantz. $35.00.

In Deadly Combat: A German Soldiers Memoir of the Eastern Front. By: Gottlob Bidermann. $20.00. Author saw action in the Crimea, Sebastopol, Leningrad, the Kurland Pocket, and his time in various Gulags as an unwilling ""guest"" of the hosting Russians.

More later.

 

My 2nd attempt at continuing this list.

800 Days on the Eastern Front: A Russian Soldier Rememers WWII. BY: Nikolai Litvin. $25.00.

The Fall of Hitlers Fortress City, The Battle of Konigsberg 1945. By: Isabel Denny. C. $35.00.

Red Partisan: Memoirs of a Soviet Resistance Fighter on the Eastern Front. By: Nikolai Obryn'ba. $27.00.

The Wolves of WWII: An East Prussian Soldiers Memoir of Combat on the Eastern Front. By: Hans Thiel. $30.00.

Stalingrad: How the Red Army Survived the German Onslaught. By: Michael K. Jones. $33.00.

Third Axis, Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War 1941-1945. By: Mark Axworthy. $50.00. This book is supposed to have a complete Romanian OrBat of both large and small units-something i've never seen anywhere. Sounds very promising.

From Stalingrad to Pillau: A Red Army Artillery Officer Remembers the Great Patriotic War. By: Issaak Kolylyanskiy. $30.00.

On the Roads of War: A Soviet Cavalryman on the Eastern Front. By: Ivan Yakushin. $40.00. Chronicles his experiances starting at Leningrad, Kusk, persuing the Germans through Russia, Belorussia, Poland and Germany.

(I already listed vol 1 of this 3 vol series but will list it with these anyway.)
Armies of the Bear. vol.1. Soviet Rifle Divisions 1917-1957. 1-25 divisions. By: Michael Avanzini.
vol. 2. 26-50 Divisions, vol. 3. 51-75 Divisions. Each book is $20.00and has 150 pages, 146 pages and 166 pages respectively. I saw a few pics of these books and they look great and show awards each division has.

Hells Gate: The Battle of the Cherkassy Pocket, Jan-Feb 1944. By: Donald Nash. $100.00. This wasn't the most expensive boo I saw-I saw some listed at or over $120.00 & $150.00 respectively.

The Penalty Strike: TheMemoirs of a Red Army Penal Company Commander,1943-1945. By: Alexander Pyl'cyn. $60.00. I'd love to see his German counterpart to come out with such a book.

Voices From Stalingrad: Nemisis on the Volga. By: Jonathan Bastable. $25.00.

 

And the prize for listing the most books on one ww2 subject goes to..........Carl you should be winning awards for such stirling work(NOTE MENTION OF WW2 PLANE IN COMPLIMENTRY POST) and this list should be a standard reference list for all forum members

 

Hitlers Order of Battle: The Key Commanders, Headquarters, Divisions, and European Allies. By: James Miller. $49.50.

Romanian Order of Battle in WWII. By: George F. Nafziger. $20.00. 90 pages.

Germany's First Ally: Armed Forces of the Slovak State 1939-1945. By: Charles Kliment. $40.00.

Panzerkampfgruppe Strachwitz. By: Michael Pruitt. $40.00.

The Winter War: Russias invasion of Finland 1939-1940. By: Robert Edwards. $27.00.

Case White: The German Army in the Polish Canpaign September 1939. By: William Russ. $25.00.

Turning Point: Recollections of Russian Participants and Witnesses of the Stalingrad Battle. By: P.P. Popov and B.G. Usil. $42.00.

Eastern Front Combat: The German Soldier in Battle From Stalingrad to Berlin. By: Hans Wijers. $20.00.

Through the Maelstorm: A Red Army Soldiers Waron the Eastern Front 1942-1945. By: Boris Gorbechevsky. $37.00.

Bloody Streets: The Soviet Assault on Berlin April 1945. By: A. Stephan Hamilton. $90.00.

 

Aw shucks ;-D

Just think of what this list would look like if I put Air and Sea warfare books here as well as foreign language books.

 

Found a few more very interesting sounding titles.

From Retreat To Defeat. By: Ian Baxter. $59.95.

Colossus Reborn. By: David Glantz. $39.95.

The Battle of Kharkov. By: Jean Restayn. $93.95. I saw this on another dealers site listed @ $100.00 and on a third dealers site for $120.00. Aberdeen Bookstore is the cheapest I found so far.

Stalingrad. By: Mike Jones. $32.95.

For anyone interested in Soviet Rifle Divisional Histories--im getting in the 3 parts of vol 1-of Armies of the Bear-Soviet Rifle Divisions 1917-1957. So, I might be able to help anyone out who wants info on any of the first 75 Rifle Divisions.

What vol 2 and others will be--I have no clue but am hoping that it will be something to do with Guards Divisions.

 

Carl, you are gonna be skint for ever if you keep buying all these books hang on this sounds like de ja vue now who do i know like this............ME

 

Doug Nash's Hell's Gate is one of the very best books on the Eastern Front. His sequel, Victory Was Beyond Their Grasp, is one the very best books on the Western Front in 1944-45 (and it's got the best single chapter on the state of the Wehrmacht in 1944 I've ever read). You won't find a copy of Hell's Gate under $100 because it was a fairly limited print run.

Bill Russ' book is a very, very detailed study of the Polish campaign from the German Army viewpoint. It is for serious students of history and wargamers. Not an easy read but an absolute mine of information and indispensable if you're studying Fall Weiss.

Bloody Streets is a huge book - and absolute must for anyone studying urban combat/the Battle of Berlin.

For Eastern Front books with the emphasis on the Russian side, it's worth having a look through here:

WWII and other Book Reviews

and his Eastern Front library here:

LibraryThing | Catalog your books online

And we've not even touched on the German-language side yet.

 

Well so far only 5 titles ordered and a loooooooong way to go. ;-)))

 

Hi Halder many thanks for the links and books info. I'll be shopping around for a copy of Hells Gate. I just ordered 5 hard to get titles all East Front-set me back $200.00.

Gave you 25 reps for the help.