World war ii library binding january 30, 2012 by gary jeffrey author visit amazons gary jeffrey page. This amounted to a quarter of leningrads population. The nazisoviet war in american popular culture is a 2008 book by the american historians ronald smelser and edward j. The eastern front the national wwii museum new orleans. Eastern front world war ii books casemate publishers.
Without question one of the classics of postwar historical scholarship, stones boldly conceived and brilliantly executed book opened the eyes of a generation of young british historians raised on tales of the western trenches to the crucial importance of the eastern front in the first world war niall ferguson scholarly, lucid, entertaining, based on a thorough knowledge of austrian and. Atrocities including beheadings and mass rapes occurred daily. Which books should you read first if youre new to the eastern front of. Hitler was determined to take over the russian city for symbolic reasons, and during the twoandahalfyear siege 750,000 civilians were deliberately starved to death.
Also dated and a good read is moscow to stalingrad. The eastern front in world war one is often largely unknown to many westerners. In combat with the waffenss on the eastern front 1945, and with the french in indochina 195154 19 january 2015 by paul martelli and vittorino dal cengio. The personal memoir of a nazi soldier, from joining the german army in 1941 through his time as a panzer on the eastern front. What is a good book about the eastern front in wwi. List of books and articles about world war ii eastern front online. Some more information about the austrohungarians would have been welcome. From the falkland islands to the lakes of africa, across the eastern and western fronts, to the former german colonies in the pacific, the world war i series provides a sixvolume history of the battles and campaigns that raged on land, at sea and in the air.
Having read them i can say that they have serious mistakes since they rely on soviet. Fritz, a professor of history at east tennessee state university, shows the eastern front from the german perspective. Originally written only for his daughter, armin schedierbauers adventures in my youth chronicles his time. Operations, myths and memories italian and italian american studies.
Many of the new titles you see around i will carry and when i do have the book in stock they will be posted immediately. Robert forczyk is a leading expert on the history of armored warfare, and he has made a particular study of the second world war on the eastern front. Here you can log books youve read or want to read and create various collections, and create. The eastern front during world war ii was a great morass into which millions of men, both germans and russians, disappeared. Along the x axis is time, and on the y axis is the count of editions.
Well, im going to give you 3 books i recommend you read first in the. The history of world war i series recounts the battles and campaigns of the great war. World war ii by gary jeffrey and nick spender jan 30, 2012. The eastern front chapter 9 the cambridge history of. Our community welcomes everyone from around the world to discuss world history, historical periods, and themes in history military history, archaeology, arts and culture, and history in books and movies.
One week after launching a massive invasion of the ussr, german divisions make staggering advances on leningrad, moscow. The memoirs of a german soldier on the eastern front by gunter k. A groundbreaking historical study, norman stones the eastern front 19141917 was the very first authoritative account of the russian front in the first world war to be published in the west in this nowclassic history he dispels the myths surrounding a still relatively littleknown aspect of the war, showing how inefficiency rather than economic shortage led to russias desperate privations. What are some of the best books on the eastern front. Because it was longer, less fortified and more thinly manned than the western front, the eastern front was more fluid and changeable. Publishing history this is a chart to show the publishing history of editions of works about this subject. Duarte, pablo freidinger, marcel and hoffmann, andreas 2019. Heres a list of the books in english or translated into english that i have read and found to be good. Memories of a machine gunner on the eastern front, 194345 10 oct 2019.
Im interested in something that talks about the parts of the european theater that no one talks about. How the red army stopped hitler by david glantz and jonathan house and russias war. Four years of armoured battle on the eastern front in the second world war littered the battlefields with the wrecks of destroyed and disabled tanks, and anthony tuckerjoness photographic history is a fascinating guide to them. Founded in 2006, historum is a history forum dedicated to history discussions and historical events. The memoirs of sepp allerberger, knights cross by albrecht wacker. The tale of one of germanys greatest snipers and a riveting if slightly short read. However, the western front and its marquee battles are just part of the story of the great war. The situation there was quite different to that on the western front. Eastern front 1288 works search for books with subject eastern front. The initial period of war on the eastern front, 22 june august 1941. Which books should you read first if youre new to the eastern front of ww2. His thesis is that the wehrmacht was worn out after 8 weeks of operation barbarossa by dust in their engines, terrible roads, unsuitable t. It discusses perceptions of the eastern front of world warii in the united states in the context of historical revisionism.
Gary jeffrey has written many graphic history books about world war ii. World war one how did the eastern front differ from the. Subject headings are standardized phrases or, controlled vocabularies in more technical terms that are assigned to every book, ebook, and journal article in a librarys collection. Norman stones the eastern front, 19141917 shines the light of history on the other front, a theater of battle that is still somewhat shrouded in mystery over 80 years after the last gun fell silent. This was the longest and most devastating siege in the history of world war ii. Here, rebecca fachner follows up on her articles on royal family squabbles here and the spark that caused war to break out here.
Military casualties and exchange rates during the first world war. The eastern front from the early german successes in operation barbarossa to the siege of stalingrad and the soviet counteroffensive that eventually brought berlin to its knees, the eastern front of world war ii saw axis forces clash with the red army in some of the most brutal battles in history. By the end of the year, it spanned more than 1,000 miles, running from the baltic sea coast near riga to the ukranian shores of the black sea. The complete wwii diary and history of the sturmgeschutz brigade 236. Two of the most popular eastern front histories are when titans clashed. Although they may seem a little intimidating at first, using subject headings when you search for the best source materials on a given topic can end up saving you a lot of time. The tatsinskaya airfield raid 1942, rescuing mussolini. Discover librarianselected research resources on world war ii eastern front from the questia online library, including fulltext online books, academic journals, magazines, newspapers and more. The book suffers slightly from the authors inability to decide whether or not hes writing a military history of the eastern front, or a military history of the russian army during this period, and this halfway house approach is evident in the latter chapters.
The german army on the eastern front today i finished a great book called the german army on the eastern front. Through a network of former highranking wehrmacht and current bundeswehr officers who had served in russia, germans. The epic siege of world war ii, 19411944 by anna reid, stalingrad. The second world war on the eastern front 9781405840637. It was a great analysis of the german armys performance in the east during wwii, and. Please note, i do not add new books to my website until i actually have them in stock, as too many times in the past there have been the so called checks in the mail issues with problems from release dates to shipping and so on. Decision in the east by earl ziemke for something a little more up to date, david glantzs when titans clashed is a relatively short overall look at the eastern front over the 4 years. Operation barbarossa robert kershaw, war without garlands siege of leningrad harrison e.
Americans were quite receptive to a view of world war two propagated by many germans on how the war was fought on the eastern front in russia. The combat history of the 2nd guards tank army from. Koschorrek in the series of articles, great ww2 books, we shall suggest some books. His many books include georgy zhukov, demyansk 194243, red christmas. The battles fought on the eastern front were decisive to the course of the first world war. The fateful siege, 19421943 by antony beevor, hitler moves east 19411943 by paul carell, battleground. Having read them i can say that they have serious mistakes since they rely on soviet sources for information on german strength and loss statistics. Both sides fought with demonic furythe germans to crush the hated slavs, and the soviets to defend the sacred soil of mother russia. Using 250 previously unpublished photographs, many of which have come from the albums of individuals who took part in the war, ss. Discover librarianselected research resources on world war ii eastern front from the questia online library, including fulltext online books, academic journals. Millions of captured soldiers died of exposure and maltreatment. I just read operation barbarossa and germanys defeat in the east by david stahel, which i highly recommend.
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