Recommended reading on the Soviet forces

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Post by Alex Yeliseenko » 26 Jan 2008 18:14

You speak about 120 pages in an electronic kind?

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Re: Recommended reading on the Soviet forces

Post by Kanadon » 04 Feb 2010 06:42

Which "Nakanune" are you guys talking about?

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Post by Kanadon » 04 Feb 2010 19:30

How come on this site it says 622 pages, but on this one only 159?

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Post by sksvlad » 04 Mar 2010 23:31

My addition to the list: "My Just War" by Gabriel Temkin.
http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:My%20Just%20War:3002149304

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Post by [email protected] » 09 Apr 2010 13:22

The link below will take you to what is worth knowing about the Red Army in WWII

http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowals ... draft.html

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Post by Art » 09 Apr 2010 15:24

This thread is to for readers exchanging opinions on existing book on the subject, not for authors advertising their books which were just published, especially when these books are of autobiographical character. So I recommend to place an announcement in the Reference Material section of the forum.

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Post by Jeff Leach » 24 Nov 2010 12:35

A long time ago some someone recommended this book, "Eugene Drig's 'Mechanized corps Red Army in Action'. 830 pages of statistics and descriptions of fights."

It is a fantastic book, still available by the way, but it lacks an index making it very hard to use :(

After purchasing a number of Russian books, I enjoyed this series of books by Ilya Moschansky, http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/4881982/. Another really nice book, is this one on Armored Trains http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/5086184/ the second part has just come out http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/5430549/.

Wonder if someone can tell men something about,

Великая Отечественная Война. 1941-1945. Словарь-справочник

do know what I should make of it.

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Post by Jack Carter » 26 May 2011 19:48

A new book by one of the big guns in the Western world on the Red Army - Roger Reese at Texas A&M University: "Why Stalin's Soldiers Fought".

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Post by Alex Yeliseenko » 12 Jun 2011 16:04

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Rostislav Aliev book. Storm Brest (Brest-Litowsk) Zittadel (june 1941). Probably best published on this theme in Russia and in the West. Author used thousand documents from NARA and BA-MA. The book reflects a sight of German commanders at a course of storm of a fortress.

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Post by Alex Yeliseenko » 12 Jun 2011 16:23

Brest Zittadel. One more fine book Rostislav Aliev. The author has translated hundreds German documents on storm of Brest into Russian. It also does careful opinion that German losses were more than is recognized officially.

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Post by Pips » 08 Feb 2012 00:41

Anyone have an opinion of this book?
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Post by Pips » 17 Aug 2012 00:44

Can anyone recommend books that deal with Soviet self-propelled (SU) units?

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Post by Paul_Atreides » 17 Aug 2012 02:41

There is no waste, there are reserves (Slogan of German Army in World Wars)

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Post by Igorn » 27 Nov 2012 01:29

I have published Russian edition of the Combat History of the 2nd Guards Tank Army.

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Hard Cover - A4 format. 824 pages. over 900 images including original photographs, operational maps, charts. The book is based exclusively on the archival documents of Tsamo (Central Archive of the Russian Defense Ministry) and contains original operational reports about each combat operation. English version of the book will be published by Helion in 2014.

You can order book here - http://2gvta.ru/doc/book/20121014_2010/

About the 2nd Guards Tank Army - http://2gvta.ru/doc/en/2gvta/ and http://2gvta.ru/doc/en/foreward/


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