 | Forgotten Soldier (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Guy Sajer
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.52 Remains, for me, the definitive precursor to a wider interest in the subject of the Eastern Front campaigns. Graphic and sweeping in its coverage.
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 | Hitler's Panzers East: World War II Reinterpreted by R.H.S. Stolfi
Buy new: £15.95 / Used from: £6.64 A classic "What if?" scenario. The world might well have been a different place! Fortunately, we are where we are!
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 | Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942 (Modern War Studies) by David M. Glantz
Buy used from: £13.95 A compelling and detailed narrative that illustrates both the quality of the German military leadership and the inevitability of defeat by the Soviet's, despite ostensibly catastophic losses.
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 | Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia, 1941 by David M. Glantz
Buy used from: £6.99 Barbarossa 1941 - Glantz once again relates the sweep of a major campaign with considerable, yet accessible detail. The authority.
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 | Hitler's Greatest Defeat: The Collapse of Army Group Centre, June 1944 by Paul Adair
Buy used from: £2.00 Adair's classic account of the rout of German forces caused by Operation Bagration illuminates the sweep of Soviet success for mortals such as we whilst losing no authority as a brilliant study (IMO.
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 | Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front by Gunter K. Koschorrek
Buy used from: £12.97 Based on literal sleeve notes, this one takes provides the kind of detail that Guy Sajer conveyed with such eloquence. Corroboration of the hell of it all.
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 | Berlin Dance of Death by Helmut Altner
Buy used from: £7.25 Altner is slow at first, but you are gradually absorbed into a compelling and moving first hand account of the death throes of the doomed Reich.
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 | When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler by David M. Glantz
Buy used from: £7.24 An epic and engrossing account of the Red Army's march to victory after initial set-backs. Wonderful context for more in-depth reading.
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 | Stopped at Stalingrad: Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942-43 (Modern War Studies) by Joel Hayward
Buy new: £17.05 / Used from: £16.86 A revealing account of the centrality of air power issues to the inevitability of the German defeat. Scholarly and detailed in its treatment.
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 | Through Hell for Hitler: The Dramatic First-hand Account of Fighting on the Eastern Front with the Wehrmacht in World War II by Henry Metelmann
Buy used from: £2.99 Written in a signal box in SE England. In some ways it seems too closely to parallel the style of Guy Sajer's account, but nonetheless readable.
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 | Red Storm on the Reich by Christopher Duffy
Buy used from: £9.99 Detailed and accessible description of the Soviet conquest of Germany. An excellent account.
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 | Last Laurels: The German Defence of Upper Silesia, January-May 1945 by Georg Gunter
Buy used from: £17.98 Fantasic detail. Expensive, but worthwhile for Eastern Front addicts!
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 | The Forsaken Army (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Heinrich Gerlach
Buy used from: £0.32 Who'd be a landser! A moving and recommended novelisation of suffering and struggle from one of the 6th's few survivors.
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 | The Battle of Kursk: Operation Citadel 1943 (Penguin Classic Military History) by Robin Cross
Buy used from: £3.64 Not gripping, but certainly a useful/readable account of the pivotal role of the German failure in the battles for the Kursk salient and their ultimate part in the attritional defeat of the Germany.
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 | With Our Backs to Berlin by Tony Le Tissier
Buy used from: £9.00 An interesting collage of first hand accounts of the final days of the Reich.
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