Cambridge, Massachusetts, London: Harvard University Press, 2012. — 407 p. On June 22, 1941, the German army invaded the Soviet Union. In six months, 4.5 million Soviet soldiers were dead, large parts of the country were in German hands, and the Soviet capital had been evacuated. Less than four years later, Soviet troops conquered Berlin, having played a leading role in winning...
London: Futura, 1976. — 240 p. — ISBN: 0860072738. Originally published in 1974, this volume reveals how, between 1944 and 1947, around 50,000 Cossacks, Croats and Soviet citizens in Nazi Germany (prisoners of war and war refugees) were forcibly repatriated back to the Soviet Union. The Decision to Use Force. The First Unpleasantness. Death on the Quayside. The Croats and the...
Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1991. — 1376 S. — ISBN: 3-596-11008-4 Teil 1. - S. 1-497. Der Angriff auf die Sowjetunion war eines der bedeutungsvollsten und in seinen Auswirkungen auf die politische Geschichte Europas nachhaltigsten Ereignisse des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Das Buch analysiert die langfristigen Ziele Hitlers gegenüber der UdSSR und die...
Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1991. — 1376 S. — ISBN: 3-596-11008-4. Teil 2. - S. 498-1015. Der Angriff auf die Sowjetunion war eines der bedeutungsvollsten und in seinen Auswirkungen auf die politische Geschichte Europas nachhaltigsten Ereignisse des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Das Buch analysiert die langfristigen Ziele Hitlers gegenüber der UdSSR und die...
Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1991. - 1376 S. - ISBN: 3-596-11008-4 Teil 3. - S. 1016-1376. Der Angriff auf die Sowjetunion war eines der bedeutungsvollsten und in seinen Auswirkungen auf die politische Geschichte Europas nachhaltigsten Ereignisse des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Das Buch analysiert die langfristigen Ziele Hitlers gegenüber der UdSSR und die...
Ian Allan, 2003. — 160 p. ISBN: 0-7110-2890-7. During the long campaign triggered by the German invasion of Russia in June 1941 the aerial strategies adopted by the Luftwaffe and Soviet forces evolved. This analysis records the changing balance as the Russians employed more potent aircraft, including many supplied from Britain and the USA, which eventually turned the tide of...
Los Angeles: American People's Mobilization, 1941.— 20 p. The text of this pamphlet is based on a speech delivered by Norman Byrne at the regular weekly forum of the American People's Mobilization, July 6, 1941. A realistic view of the German-Soviet War must take into consideration the following points: 1) the mechanized army is an invention of the Soviet Union, picked up and...
Los Angeles: American People's Mobilization, 1941. — 20 p. The text of this pamphlet is based on a speech delivered by Norman Byrne at the regular weekly forum of the American People's Mobilization, July 6, 1941. A realistic view of the German-Soviet War must take into consideration the following points: 1) the mechanized army is an invention of the Soviet Union, picked up and...
Moscow: Argumenty i fakty, AIF Kind Heart Charitable Foundation, 2016. — 478 p., il. ISBN: 978-5-85272-259-1. This book is a genuine historical document. The journalists of the Russian Weekly Argumenty i fakty have gathered together all the surviving diaries written by Russian children during the Second World War that it has been possible to find, and now, for the first time in...
2nd Revised Edition. — London — Boulder: Macmillan Publ.; Westview Press, 1981. — 707 p. — ISBN: 0-86531-102-1. For a period of three years — from the summer of 1941 to the summer of 1944 — large parts of the Soviet Union were under German occupation. For another year thereafter, until the capitulation of the Third Reich, several millions of former Soviet citizens were under...
Pen and Sword Military, 2013. — 224 p. What was it like to confront the German panzer armies as an anti-tank gunner on the Eastern Front during the Second World War? How could you hope overcome of one of the best-equipped, well-trained and tenacious armored forces of the time? And how did the Red Army’s tactics and skills develop over the course of the war in order to counter...
Connecticut - London, Prager - Westport, 1995. — 206 p. Soviet Industrial Development, 1929-1941 The Military Economy, 1942-1945 Logistics Lend-lease Weapons Production Tanks and Mechanized Artillery Artillery Antitank Guns The Railroads Motor Transport Utilization of Horses Select Bibliography
Praeger, 2006. — 193 p. Most military historians have difficulty comprehending the miracle that took place in late 1941 and early 1942 in the Soviet Union. In the summer of 1941, the German Army routed the Red Army as it had routed the Polish, British, French and other armies in 1939, 1940, and early 1941. None had been able to withstand German might more than a few weeks. When...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 1108421261; ISBN13: 978-1108421263 — (New Studies in European History) In this compelling account of life and death in a Russian province under Nazi occupation, Johannes Due Enstad challenges received wisdom about Russian patriotism during World War II. With the benefit of hindsight, we know how hopelessly...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. — 376 p. — ISBN10: 0520242424; ISBN13: 978-0520242425 Drawing from engrossing survivors' accounts, many never before published, The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943 recounts a heroic yet little-known chapter in Holocaust history. In vivid and moving detail, Barbara Epstein chronicles the history of a Communist-led resistance movement inside...
London: Carlton, 2001. — 256 p. — ISBN: 1-84222-242-2 «Hitler versus Stalin» shows the brutality, horror and heroism of war on the Eastern Front as never before. Over 300 rare photographs, many recently released from the Russian archives and previously unpublished in the West, illustrate every phase and aspect of the Eastern Front campaigns, from the Nazis' early blitzkrieg...
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1952. — 239 p. Contrary to most journalists, exiled natives, and other eyewitnesses, American scholars have tended to portray the Soviet world almost exclusively in terms o£ what its leaders had said, thought, and done. The impact of the leaders and their actions on the population at large has remained a neglected topic. For this...
Helion & Company Ltd., 2010. — 656 p. At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of Germany's Third Reich, and most German officers and soldiers believed would be a triumphal march on Moscow, the capital of the Soviet...
New York: Frank Cass Publishers, 2004. — 321 p. The territory of Belorussia has been a theater of military operations many times in past wars (for example, in 1812, 1915–17, and 1918–20). It was also an arena of active operations from 1941–43 during the Great Patriotic War. Red Army operations on the Belorussian strategic axis in the summer of 1944, however, surpassed all...
Gen. Ed. T.A. Wilson. — Revised and Expanded Edition. — Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2015. — xv, 557 p. — (Modern War Studies). — ISBN: 978-0-7006-2121-7. When the first edition of this book was published in 1995, the authors gratefully benefited from the modest first wave of archival materials released by the Russian Federation, which increased our knowledge...
Clemson, South Carolina, 2001. — 114 p. The Parameters of the Soviet-German War. Scale. Scope. Course. Cost. Impact. Forgotten Battles and Historical Debates. The 1st Period of the War. The Summer-Fall Campaign, 22 June-December 1943. The Winter Campaign, December 1941-April 1942. The Summer-Fall Campaign, May-October 1942. Forgotten Battles and Historical Debates. The 2nd...
Kansas, University Press of Kansas, 1999. — 431 p. On 19 November 1942, Red Army forces struck a massive blow at Stalingrad against the hitherto triumphant German Army. Within the course of a single week, Soviet forces had encircled German Sixth Army, one of the Wehrmacht's most vaunted armies, within the deadly Stalingrad cauldron. Just over two months later, the tattered...
University Press of Kansas, 1995. — 123 p. Prelude: 1918-1941. The Red Army, 1918-1939. Armed Truce, 1939-1941. Opposing Armies, 1941. First period of war: June 1941- November 1942. German Onslaught. Soviet Response. To Moscow. Rasputitsa, Spring 1942. Operation Blau: The German Drive on Stalingrad. Second period of war: November 1942 - December 1943. Operation Uranus: The...
Aberjona Press, 2005. — 521 p. With the opening of long-sealed Soviet archives beginning in the 1990s, English-speaking readers have begun to better comprehend the enormity and decisive nature of the fighting between Germany and her many allies and the Soviet Union. Despite the massive scale of the fighting, much of its history remains obscure and imperfectly understood....
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 376 p. — (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies No. 99) — ISBN10: 0521482658; ISBN13: 978-0521482653. In this book Mark Harrison rebuilds and analyses the Soviet economy's wartime statistical record, examining its prewar size and composition, and wartime changes in GNP, employment, the defence burden, and the role...
John Murray Publishers, 2011. — 352 p. In February 1943, German forces surrendered to the Red Army at Stalingrad and the tide of war turned. By May 1945 Soviet soldiers had stormed Berlin and brought down Hitler's regime. Total War follows the fortunes of these fighters as they liberated Russia and the Ukraine from the Nazi invader and fought their way into the heart of the...
Barnsley: Pen&Sword, 2011. This is an interesting book with a somewhat deceptive title. This is not an account of the battles of Stalingrad and Kursk, and of the operational events in between. Rather it is an overview of the development of the Red Army from the early 1930s through to 1943, with particular emphasis on the development of its strategy and its operational doctrine....
Osprey, 2013. Quality: originally electronic In "Operation Barbarossa: The German Invasion of Soviet Russia", author Robert Kirchubel combines three of his earlier works on the initial stages of German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 (Operation Barbarossa) into this one volume. Each of the earlier books were originally written for Osprey Publishing's Campaign Series. The...
Osprey, 2013. Quality: originally electronic In "Operation Barbarossa: The German Invasion of Soviet Russia", author Robert Kirchubel combines three of his earlier works on the initial stages of German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 (Operation Barbarossa) into this one volume. Each of the earlier books were originally written for Osprey Publishing's Campaign Series. The...
Beograd: Vreme, 2013. — 82 s. — (Kultura sećanja). — ISBN: 978-86-88491-04-4 Vreme pokreće ediciju Kultura sećanja čija svrha nije da nadjača kakofoniju vladajućeg istorijskog revizionizma i reciklaže istorije, već da onome ko je spreman da čita pruži priliku da događaje razume u okolnostima u kojima su se odvijali, a aktere da vidi u kontekstu vremena u kome su živeli i...
Routledge: Frank Cass and Company Limited, 1991. — 218 p. — (Cass Series on Politics and Military Affairs in the Twentieth Century, Book 4). — ISBN: 0-7146-3351-8. The Cossacks who wore German uniforms saw their service not as treason to the motherland, but as an episode in the revolution of 1917, part of an ongoing struggle against Moscow and against Communism. Their reward...
Washington: US Goverment Printing Office, 1951. — 39 p. "Combat in forests and swamps requires firm, farsighted, energetic leadership by commanders who are able to cope with the peculiarities of this type of warfare and avoid unnecessary crises and reverses. During initial engagements uncertainty about the enemy and terrain is far greater than in the open. Unpleasant surprises...
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 2000 (New Series), pp. 97-118 (Article) Together with the Orthodox renaissance on German-occupied territory, the religious revival in unoccupied Soviet Russia during World War II – epitomized by the late-night meeting of Stalin and the Orthodox Church’s leaders on September 4, 1943 – represented a...
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1941. — 4 p. Citizens of the Soviet Union! The Soviet government and its head, Comrade Stalin, have authorized me to make the following statement: Today at 4 a.m. without any claims having been presented to the Soviet Union, without any declaration of war, German troops attacked our country, attacked our borders at many points and...
Panorama, 2007. — 606 p. Il libro costituisce un significativo sviluppo degli approfondimenti storici iniziati nel 2000 con il progetto triennale di studio “Verifica di fonti storiche russo sovietiche”, conclusosi a Trento nel 2005, e della collaborazione che è continuata con gli storici dell’Università di Voronezh, con l’Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore dell’Esercito e con...
Harvard University Press, 2004. — 327 p. In Nazi eyes, the Soviet Union was the "wild east," a savage region ripe for exploitation, its subhuman inhabitants destined for extermination or helotry. An especially brutal dimension of the German army's eastern war was its anti-partisan campaign. This conflict brought death and destruction to thousands of Soviet civilians, and has...
Nikolai Tolstoy. Victims of Yalta. Secret betrayal of the allies, 1944-1947 New York: IntegrMedia, 1978 During the Second World War, FDR and Churchill made a deal with Stalin. The deal involved sacrificing a number of people who had fled to the West. Tolstoy has been exposing the complicity of the West in this betrayal. Well worth a refresher if you have already read it. Well...
Nikolai Tolstoy. Victims of Yalta. Secret betrayal of the allies, 1944-1947 New York: IntegrMedia, 1978 During the Second World War, FDR and Churchill made a deal with Stalin. The deal involved sacrificing a number of people who had fled to the West. Tolstoy has been exposing the complicity of the West in this betrayal. Well worth a refresher if you have already read it. Well...
New York, NY: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019. — 388 p. In the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat. Led by Marina Raskova, these three regiments, including the 588th Night Bomber Regiment--nicknamed the "night witches"--faced intense...
New York: Sutton Publishing, 1998. — 242 p. This volume opens with a review of the historical background of the Red Army in the year leading up to the outbreak of war in 1939, and follows with a discussion of the major themes in the development of Soviet forces during the Great Patriotic War that ensued in 1941. The Red Army's organizational structures are examined, from high...
Publication details not specified, 2017. - 60 p. This study analyzes the resource distribution of the German air force, a key component in the initial German victories during the Second World War. The purpose of the analysis is to determine whether German resources were focused primarily in the East or in the West during the period from 1941 to 1943, from the German invasion of...
Center of Military History, Department of the Army, Washington D. C., 1987 - 574 p. Moscow to Stalingrad: Decision in the East is the second to be completed in a projected three-volume history of the German-Soviet conflict in World War II. The first, Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East, covered the Soviet Army's liberation of its own territory and its drive...
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