What is the best book about the Wehrmacht?
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What is the best book about the Wehrmacht?
I'm just in the mood to start reading a book about the Wehrmacht. Does anyone have any recommendations? I've got quite a few on my bookshelves, but hopefully I've missed a few books so give me some titles!
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Re: What is the best book about the Wehrmacht?
Hitler’s Armies: A History of the German War Machine 1939–45
by Chris McNab
by Chris McNab
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Re: What is the best book about the Wehrmacht?
I've just finished reading Tim Ripley's book titled The Wehrmacht: The German Army in World War II, 1939-1945.
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Re: What is the best book about the Wehrmacht?
One good book I can recommend is John Wheeler-Bennet’s
“The Nemesis of Power”.
“The Nemesis of Power”.
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Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil 1944-45 by Bastiaan Willems.
Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front: The German Infantry's War, 1941–1944 by Jeff Rutherford
Marching Into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus by Waitman Wade Beorn
Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front: The German Infantry's War, 1941–1944 by Jeff Rutherford
Marching Into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus by Waitman Wade Beorn
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Re: What is the best book about the Wehrmacht?
Blitzkrieg LegendGeorge L Gregory wrote: ↑15 Jul 2022 00:01I'm just in the mood to start reading a book about the Wehrmacht. Does anyone have any recommendations? I've got quite a few on my bookshelves, but hopefully I've missed a few books so give me some titles!
Wehrmacht im Ostkrieg
(https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/ ... ml?lang=de)
Das Heer 1933-1945
Germany and the Second World War (V. IV and V. VI)
Stalingrad: Analyse und Dokumentation einer Schlacht
Die Herrschaft der Wehrmacht
Der Unterführer als Feldherr im Taschenformat. Theorie und Praxis der Auftragstaktik im deutschen Heer 1869 bis 1945
Die Wehrmacht im Stadtkampf
Die Wende vor Moskau
Entscheidung im Westen 1944: Der Oberbefehlshaber West und die Abwehr der alliierten Invasion
Die Wehrmacht: Mythos und Realität
The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich
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Re: What is the best book about the Wehrmacht?
Another good book : D J Goodspeed “The German Wars: 1914-1945”.