Title: Once I Had a Comrade: Karl Roth and the Combat History of the 36th Panzer Regiment 1939-45 Author: R.W. Byrd Genre: Military History Publisher: Helion and Company Release Date: 2006 Format: Kindle Pages: 160 This is an OK little book--only 160 pages--written by an American about the experiences of his German father-in-law (Karl Roth)
Title: White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian Series: Cass Military Studies Author: Jamie Bisher Genre: Military History Publisher: Routledge Release Date: 2006 Format: Kindle Pages: 492 I had pretty low expectations when I started reading this book, as it sounded more like an academic exercise than anything else. It turns out, however, that the
Title: A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-1944 Author: Willy Peter Reese Genre: Memoir Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Release Date: 2005 Format: Hardcover Pages: 208 This is a short book, but nonetheless rather difficult to read. Why? The book is a rather tedious memoir by a young German infantryman in WWII,
Title: The First Day on the Eastern Front: Germany Invades the Soviet Union, June 22, 1941 Author: Craig W.H. Luther Genre: Military History Publisher: Stackpole Books Release Date: 2018 Format: Kindle Pages: 504 This is a very good history of the first day of Barbarossa, with description of the planning, conditions of the armies, and
Title: The Tanks of Operation Barbarossa: Soviet versus German Armour on the Eastern Front Author: Boris Kavalerchik Genre: Military History Publisher: Pen and Sword Military Release Date: 2018 Format: Kindle Pages: 288 This is an excellent book describing the tanks and armored unit organization on both sides during Operation Barbarossa. The author goes into great
Title: Shades of Gray: Memoirs of a Prussian Saint on the Eastern Front Author: Michael S. Eldredge Genre: Memoir Publisher: Mill Creek Press Release Date: 2004 Format: Paperback Pages: 352 Not a bad memoir by a young German soldier from Germany's eastern frontier (Tilsit), who happened to be a Mormon. As usual with such memoirs,
Title: Germany and the Second World War: Volume IV: The Attack on the Soviet Union Series: Germany and the Second World War Author: Horst Boog, et al Genre: Military History Publisher: Clarendon Press Release Date: 2015 Format: Paperback Pages: 1456 This volume (actually "Volume IV" consists of two volumes, Volume IV/1 and Volume IV/2) is
Title: The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917-1921 Author: Prit Buttar Genre: Military History Publisher: Osprey Publishing Release Date: 2017 Format: Kindle Pages: 498 This is an excellent book about the end of World War I on the Eastern front. Not only does the book include detailed accounts of Kerensky's last-gasp offensive, the implosion of
Title: Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman Author: Robert K. Massie Genre: General History Publisher: Random House Release Date: 2011 Format: Kindle Pages: 656 This is a very readable book about, well, Catherine the Great. Generally the book reads like a novel, or rather like a soap opera, with all of Catherine's various romances.
Title: Trump/Russia: A Definitive History Author: Seth Hettena Genre: General History Publisher: Melville House Release Date: 2018 Format: Kindle Pages: 288 This is a good summary of the numerous contacts/relationships connecting Trump to Russia, dating all the way back to the 80s. Personally I find it very disturbing, and certainly ground for a thorough investigation.
Title: All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin Author: Mikhail Zygar Genre: General History Publisher: PublicAffairs Release Date: 2016 Format: Kindle Pages: 396 This is excellent account of Russian political dynamics since 2000--readable and absolutely fascinating (for those interested in this kind of stuff). The author gives an excellent account, based on
Title: Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921 Author: Laura Engelstein Genre: General History Publisher: Oxford University Press Release Date: 2017 Format: Kindle Pages: 851 This is a clearly written, fairly comprehensive, and--as far as I can tell--accurate account of the Russian revolution and civil war. The author does a very good
Title: Russia's Last Gasp: The Eastern Front 1916–17 Author: Prit Buttar Genre: Military History Publisher: Osprey Publishing Release Date: 2016 Format: Kindle Pages: 472 This is an excellent account of World War I on the Eastern front after the exhausting and destructive battles of 1914-1915. The author's account of the Brusilov Offensive is excellent, by
Title: Germany Ascendant: The Eastern Front 1915 Author: Prit Buttar Genre: Military History Publisher: Osprey Publishing Release Date: 2015 Format: Kindle Pages: 464 This is a very good book about a little-covered topic. Moscow of the book focuses on the fighting in Galicia, there is little coverage of the fighting in north or other areas.
Title: Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914 Author: Prit Buttar Genre: Military History Publisher: Osprey Publishing Release Date: 2014 Format: Kindle Pages: 488 This is an excellent book on the first several months of WWI on the Eastern Front. The author does a pretty job job of summarizing the maneuvers
Title: Perish by the Sword;: The Czechoslovakian Anabasis and our supporting campaigns in North Russia and Siberia 1918-1920 Author: R. Ernest Dupuy Genre: Military History Publisher: The Military service Publishing Co. Release Date: 1939 Format: Hardcover Pages: 302 This is a pretty good book about a fascinating topic, as described in the book's title. I
Title: Stillborn Crusade: The Tragic Failure of Western Intervention in the Former Soviet Union Author: Ilya Somin Genre: Military History Publisher: Routledge Release Date: 1996 Format: Hardcover Pages: 246 This is an excellent, well-written book about the policies of the US and UK concerning their intervention in Russia after its revolution. I would divide this
Title: The White Armies of Russia. A Chronicle of Counter-Revolution and Allied Intervention Author: George Stewart Genre: Military History Publisher: Macmillan Release Date: 1933 Format: Hardcover Pages: 469 While rather dated and written without the benefit of the several succeeding decades of research, this is a good history of the Russian civil war. Given its
Title: America's Siberian Adventure 1918-1920 Author: William Graves Genre: Military History Publisher: Uncommon Valor Press Release Date: 2014 Format: Kindle Pages: 363 This is an interesting and well-written book by the commander of the US army forces sent to Siberia in 1918. The author was obviously a decent and capable officer sent into a very
Title: The Czech and Slovak Legion in Siberia, 1917–1922 Author: Joan Mcguire Mohr Genre: Military History Publisher: McFarland Release Date: 2016 Format: Kindle Pages: 263 This is a good book on a topic with which I am pretty familiar; the author has done quite a bit of research and cites various events, people, anecdotes, that
