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The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad

Harrison E. Salisbury

1969

NON-FICTION

Classic account of the Leningrad blockade by a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who covered the Soviet Union during the war.

Same eventSame warTags: Eastern Europe, Eastern Front, Non-Fiction, Siege, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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Enemy at the Gates
Enemy at the Gates

William Craig

1973

NON-FICTION

The definitive account of the Battle of Stalingrad, told through the eyes of soldiers on both sides.

Tags: Eastern Europe, Eastern Front, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege

Antony Beevor

1998

NON-FICTION

Beevor's masterful account of the battle that changed the course of WWII on the Eastern Front.

Tags: Eastern Europe, Eastern Front, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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Kursk 1943
Kursk 1943

Dennis Showalter

2013

NON-FICTION

Authoritative account of the greatest tank battle in history.

Tags: Eastern Europe, Eastern Front, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War

Chris Bellamy

2007

NON-FICTION

Comprehensive history of the Soviet-German war drawing on newly opened Russian archives. Covers the full sweep from Barbarossa to Berlin.

Tags: Eastern Europe, Eastern Front, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941–45

Alan Clark

1965

NON-FICTION

Gripping operational narrative of the Eastern Front campaign from the 1941 invasion to Germany's defeat. A foundational text of Eastern Front history.

Tags: Eastern Europe, Eastern Front, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler

David M. Glantz & Jonathan House

1995

NON-FICTION

The authoritative operational history of the Soviet-German war, integrating Soviet archives unavailable to earlier historians.

Tags: Eastern Europe, Eastern Front, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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The Road to Stalingrad
The Road to Stalingrad

John Erickson

1975

NON-FICTION

First volume of Erickson's monumental two-volume history of the Soviet-German war, covering the catastrophic opening campaigns through the winter of 1942.

Tags: Eastern Europe, Eastern Front, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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The Battle of Kursk
The Battle of Kursk

David M. Glantz & Jonathan House

1999

NON-FICTION

The definitive operational history of Kursk — the largest tank battle ever fought — drawing on Soviet and German archives to provide a day-by-day account of the fighting.

Tags: Eastern Europe, Eastern Front, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed

Michael Jones

2007

NON-FICTION

Account of Stalingrad focusing on the Soviet soldiers and civilians who endured the fighting, drawing on diaries and letters from Russian archives.

Tags: Eastern Europe, Eastern Front, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa

David M Glantz

2011

NON-FICTION

On 22 June 1941 Hitler unleashed his forces on the Soviet Union. Spearheaded by four powerful Panzer groups and protected by an impenetrable curtain of air support, the seemingly invincible Wehrmacht ...

Tags: Eastern Europe, Eastern Front, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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Armageddon in Stalingrad
Armageddon in Stalingrad

David M. Glantz, Jonathan Mallory House

2009

NON-FICTION

The world's foremost authority on the Soviet Army in World War II offers the second installment of his pathbreakinbg trilogy on the epic clash at Stalingrad. The definitive account of the battle that ...

Tags: Eastern Europe, Eastern Front, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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After Stalingrad
After Stalingrad

David M. Glantz

2009

NON-FICTION

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 forc...

Tags: Eastern Europe, Eastern Front, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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Barbarossa Derailed
Barbarossa Derailed

David Glantz

2014

NON-FICTION

The supplemental companion to a two-part study on Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's plan to invade Soviet Russia during World War II. Volume three, the Documentary Companion to Barbarossa Derailed, conta...

Tags: Eastern Europe, Eastern Front, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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Barbarossa Derailed: the Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941
Barbarossa Derailed: the Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941

David M. Glantz

2016

NON-FICTION

This groundbreaking new study, now significantly expanded, exploits a wealth of Soviet and German archival materials, including the combat orders and operational of the German OKW, OKH, army groups, a...

Tags: Eastern Europe, Eastern Front, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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To the Gates of Stalingrad
To the Gates of Stalingrad

David M. Glantz, Jonathan Mallory House

2009

NON-FICTION

The world's foremost authority on the Soviet-German clash draws upon previously unseen, underused, and neglected Soviet and German sources to provide the definitive account of the major turning point ...

Tags: Eastern Europe, Eastern Front, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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Companion to Endgame at Stalingrad
Companion to Endgame at Stalingrad

David M. Glantz

2014

NON-FICTION

In Endgame at Stalingrad, the final volume of his acclaimed Stalingrad Trilogy, David Glantz completes his definitive account of one of World War II’s most infamous confrontations, the campaign that m...

Tags: Eastern Europe, Eastern Front, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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The Fall of Berlin, 1945
The Fall of Berlin, 1945

Antony Beevor

2002

NON-FICTION

Chronicles the horror of Berlin's fall to the Soviets in 1945, recalling the starvation, exposure, artillery fire, rape, and mass destruction that marked the Red Army's final push on Germany's capital...

Tags: Eastern Europe, Eastern Front, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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Kursk
Kursk

M. K. Barbier

2013

NON-FICTION

In July 1943, the German Army launched what proved to be its last great offensive on the Eastern Front. Kursk is a comprehensive history of the last time that Germany held the strategic initiative in ...

Tags: Eastern Europe, Eastern Front, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction
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Battle of Kursk, 1943
Battle of Kursk, 1943

Hans Seidler

2011

NON-FICTION

"The greatest tank battle in world history, known as Operation CITADEL, opened during the early hours of 5 July 1943, and its outcome was to decide the eventual outcome of the war on the Eastern Front...

Tags: Eastern Europe, Eastern Front, Non-Fiction, WWIIThemes: Non-Fiction