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A FROZEN HELL: THE RUSSO-FINNISH WINTER WAR OF 1939-1940

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MATCH 23
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

David Halberstam

2007

NON-FICTION

Sweeping narrative of the Korean War from MacArthur's Inchon triumph to the Chinese intervention and the bitter battles of 1950–51, told through the lives of the men who fought it.

Same eventSame warTags: Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 23
Love in Winter
Love in Winter

Yong-ik Kim

1963

NON-FICTION

Twelve short stories telling of the loves, triumphs, and tragedies of people of post-war Korea.

Same eventSame warTags: Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 23
Panzers at War 1939-1942
Panzers at War 1939-1942

Bob Carruthers

2011

NON-FICTION

"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning." General Erwin Rommel A fascinating account of a deadly combination: the supreme German weapon of war in the hands of the finest military t...

Same eventSame warTags: Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 19
The Winter King
The Winter King

Bernard Cornwell

1997

FICTION

With The Winter King, the first volume of his magnificent Warlord Chronicles, Bernard Cornwell turns to the story he was born to write: the mythic saga of King Arthur. Now a major television show. The...

Same eventSame war
MATCH 18
Bagration 1944: The Destruction of Army Group Centre

Steven Zaloga

1996

NON-FICTION

Concise operational account of Operation Bagration — the massive Soviet offensive that destroyed three German armies and broke the Eastern Front wide open in the summer of 1944.

Tags: Combined Arms, Eastern Europe, Non-Fiction, Operational, World War IIThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 15
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, Non-Fiction, Operational, World War IIThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 15
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, Non-Fiction, Operational, World War IIThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 15
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: Combined Arms, Eastern Europe, Non-Fiction, World War IIThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 15
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: Combined Arms, Eastern Europe, Non-Fiction, World War IIThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 15
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: Combined Arms, Eastern Europe, Non-Fiction, World War IIThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 15
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: Combined Arms, Eastern Europe, Non-Fiction, World War IIThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 15
The Fall of Berlin 1945
The Fall of Berlin 1945

Antony Beevor

2003

NON-FICTION

"A tale drenched in drama and blood, heroism and cowardice, loyalty and betrayal."—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Th...

Tags: Combined Arms, Eastern Europe, Non-Fiction, World War IIThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 12
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, Non-Fiction, World War IIThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 12
The Longest Day

Cornelius Ryan

1959

NON-FICTION

Classic account of the Normandy invasion from all perspectives — Allied, German, and French civilian.

Tags: Combined Arms, Non-Fiction, World War IIThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 12
Kursk 1943
Kursk 1943

Dennis Showalter

2013

NON-FICTION

Authoritative account of the greatest tank battle in history.

Tags: Eastern Europe, Non-Fiction, World War IIThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 12
An Army at Dawn
An Army at Dawn

Rick Atkinson

2002

NON-FICTION

Pulitzer Prize-winning first volume of Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy covering the North Africa campaign.

Tags: Combined Arms, Non-Fiction, World War IIThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 12
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: Combined Arms, Eastern Europe, Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 12
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: Combined Arms, Eastern Europe, Non-FictionThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 12
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, Non-Fiction, World War IIThemes: Non-Fiction
MATCH 12
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway

Jonathan Parshall & Anthony Tully

2005

NON-FICTION

Revisionist operational account of Midway from the Japanese perspective, drawing on previously unavailable Japanese records to overturn the conventional American narrative.

Tags: Non-Fiction, Operational, World War IIThemes: Non-Fiction