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

you guys want some hot stuff go check my book link out.............that should pummel the salutes............ha ha

Carl note the Gebirgs link for ya since you've been onto this for years. although many are war written copy the titles down and copy/paste onto google, you may well be surprised what is still in print or listed through book dealers world wide

oh what the heck I'll post the link down ...

Fallschirmjäger International

 

Hi E, I jut looked a bit through that site and saw some really god stuff. What I really need if they have it-is a good book listing Army DKiG recipients. A place had published one several years ago--which was done by Patzwall. That woud be a huge help in what im doing had I had that book ;-))

 

BUMPED up for the guy who asked about Eastern Front titles. Just in case he has not seen this thread yet?

 

Carl, if you have not heard of them try looking at helion.co.uk i was looking at some old catalogues today and saw some of the titles you mentioned, they are very good

 

Id practically forgotten about Helion Books. They have some books they published that I would love to have--especially the English translation to Walther-Peer Fellgiebels book listing all 7380++ RKTs. The bad thing about their book is that they didn't correct any mistakes that Fellgiebel made in his book-such as getting S-Boat Commander Klaus Feldts info mixed up with that of another Feldt RKT. Someone like ERICH HINT HINT (if he had the time) should come out with a more accurate version of Fellgiebels book.

Im going to look at their website when I have more time tomorrrow. Last time I was there-I spent a few hours looking at some of their stuff.

Tke care Mate--C.

 

Carl or anyone, do you remember whom or what firm took over the Munin Verlag firm to re-issue or translate ? W-SS titles galore, I know that JJF has done some re-do's, but the photos are wanting, they are printed off dark in many cases.

do not forget the old Podzun-Verlag works which are quite numerous on the Ost front. Some have been translated by Schiffer pubs.

yeah I wish that Erich guy would get off his little lily white behind and ...........

 

One of the things that drives me nuts about so many German works is their lack of an INDEX.

Cheers

BW

 

Hi E, im not sure? but, you are correct about Fedoritcz (SP?) as I remember looking at their site for E/Front titles-but forgot to write them donw. Anyway, there were some English translated books I saw there and I think at least one of their titles is posted somewhere in this thread?

Im going to check out Helion books today and see what they have.

Oh and, Jason MArk-Author of several books including Island of Fire,gave me a heads-up on another great E/Front title-which also includes a full chapter written about Pavlovs House. That is going to be one of my next buys ;-))

www.helionbooks.com

 

Just read several reviews over at Library thing--and at least I can see I made a greatinvestment in the books I purchased even though I didn't see any of the Armies of the Bear-Soviet Rifle Divs 1917-1957-talked about or even listed there. However, I saw quite a few titles I had not heard of before or that id forgotten about.

Now if I could only win a sizable lottery???? i'd have enough books ordered to hae the ideal library on books about the Eastern Front.

 

I joined this forum only 2 days ago, and this is my first post, but i really had to contribute with something to this most interesting thread.

I don't recall seeing this title on this thread, but last monday, i received it from amazon:
After Stalingrad - The Red Army's Winter Offensive 1942-1943, by David M. Glantz
It starts with the soviet offensive operations within the context of the Stalingrad Offensive (Nov. 42 - Jan. 43), Operation Mars, the Kalinin front and the Northwestern front's Demiansk offensive.
The moves to the soviet offensive operations along the southwestern axis (Feb-Mar. 43), operation Gallop.
The it deals with all the central axis offensives, around Orel, Briansk, Smolensk.
Then its about the Northern Axis, Operation Polar Star, Leningrad, Volkhov.
Basically its about what happened in the eastern front between the Soviet offensive on Stalingrad and Kursk.
It draws heavily on soviet sources, as usually, but it doesn't forget about th german sources, especially with the taking and retaking of Khar'kov.

This is the description you can find on amazon:
In the wake of the Red Army's signal victory at Stalingrad, which began when its surprise counteroffensive encircled German Sixth Army in Stalingrad region in mid-November 1942 and ended when its forces liquidated beleaguered Sixth Army in early February 1943, the Soviet High Command (Stavka) expanded its counteroffensive into a full-fledged winter offensive which nearly collapsed German defenses in southern Russia. History has recorded the many dramatic triumphs the Red Army achieved during the initial phases of this winter offensive, culminating with its rapid advance deep into the Donbas and Khar'kov regions in February 1943. It has also described the subsequent feats of German Field Marshall von Manstein, who, tasked by his Fuhrer, Hitler, to restore German fortunes in southern Russia, skillfully orchestrated a counterstroke of his own that indeed restored stability to Germany's defenses in the East and paved the way for the climactic battle of Kursk in July 1943.
As is so often the case, however, history has misled its audience for several cogent reasons. On the one hand, the Soviet Union and its historians, anxious to conceal the ambitiousness of its offensive and, at the same time, preserve the reputations of the Red Army and its senior commanders, willfully avoided describing the offensive's true scope and the many failures and shortcomings the Red Army experienced during its conduct. On the other hand, German and other Western historians, frequently basing their accounts on inaccurate Soviet sources, focused only on the most dramatic aspects of the offensive, ignoring much of their adversary's actions and, not coincidentally, missing his intent.
This volume, and the series that provides its context, restores the lost and concealed to the historical record. Exploiting newly-released Russian archival materials, it reveals the unbounded ambitions that shaped the Stavka's winter offensive and the full scope and scale of the Red Army's many offensive operations. For example, it reflects on recently-rediscovered Operation Mars, Marshal Zhukov's companion-piece to the more famous Operation Uranus at Stalingrad. It then reexamines the Red Army's dramatic offensive into the Donbas and Khar'kov region during February, clearly demonstrating that this offensive was indeed conducted by three rather than two Red Army fronts. Likewise, it describes how the Stavka expanded the scale of its offensive in mid-February 1943 by ordering major strategic efforts, hitherto ignored, by multiple Red Army fronts along the Western (Orel-Smolensk) axis and, in Zhukov's forgotten operation Polar Star, along the Northwestern (Demiansk-Leningrad) axis also.
Finally, by restoring the full scope of these failed or partially failed Red Army offensives to history, this volume also reassesses the impact of Manstein's dramatic counterstrokes in the Donbas and Khar'kov regions, concluding that their impact was equivalent to that of a full-fledged strategic counteroffensive.
This new study includes over 100 operational maps to highlight key aspects of the offensives."

Expect the usual dryness of Glatz's style, but the man really knows his Eastern Front

 

Hi L/ welcome to the site and thank you for that additional title. Im going to research it and see if I can find more about it.

Also, for Erich and Jason,I visited Helions site yesterday-again spending a few hours there ) and found that they have one heck of a great assortment for books that we all would or are-interested in-and many German text books as well.

In the coming months, im going to be ordering a variety of Referance books that they offer. This will include the English version of Fellgiebels RKT book, the Patzwall DKiG books (2 vols) and an assortment of books dealing with RKTs-OrBats and such. As soon as I can afford to get the first of about 30 titles-your going to see some good info posted here ;-))

 

And let's not forget Glantz's Stalingrad Trilogy, starting April 15th with Vol.1 - To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942.

 

I have not read his trilogy but that is planned as something to do.

 

C ~

are you interested in German language books/sites ?

maybe you want to wait yet several more postings for other English speaking book dealers on the list ??

 

Just received in the mail today, a copy of Hans J Wijers' 'The Battle For Stalingrad - The Battle For The Factories' (privately published, Holland 2003).

It's mentioned previously in this thread, and at first glance looks very interesting.....

 

Well, as we're on the subject of Eastern Front publications (and my to-buy list is growing by the day), can anyone tell me the diference between these two books.
- Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia, 1941
- Before Stalingrad: Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941
Both by David Glantz, and both published by The History Press Ltd, in 2001 and 2003 respectively.

 

Hi E, I am interested=but only in OrBat and reference books-such as Fellgiebels RKT book and Klaus Patzwalls two volumes about DGiG Recipient listings and some of Veit Scherzers OrBat books. As far as other German print books about battles biographies and such-those I would love to have if I were more flunt in German ;-))

 

Hi Martin, you can't go wrong with anything by Hans Wijers. Also, he has an excellent website about Stalingrad and just yesterday, I discovered he had written a few books about the Battle of the Bulge.

 

Hi L, I wish I could give you an answer to that but can't since i've only read one of those titles---the first one. I would venture a guess that he's basically rehashing the first book with the second one with maybe a different slant on it? of some possible new info in the 2nd book?

 

Walter S. Dunn wrote a book on Kursk called Kursk: Hitler's Gamble.
Now, i don't know anything about both author and book, but he's stepping on hallowed ground, many have tried, few have succeded.
He wrote another book about Bagration, i reckon, called Soviet Blitzkrieg: The Battle for White Russia, 1944