 | Stopped at Stalingrad: Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942-43 (Modern War Studies) by Joel Hayward
Buy new: £13.43 / Used from: £16.86 The best book on Stalingrad since John Erickson's classics. Wonderful on strategy, air power, operational art, and doctrines.
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 | The Road to Stalingrad: 1 (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by John Erickson
Buy new: £7.17 / Used from: £3.00 On ground movements only (not on air as well, as Hayward's book is) but the best book ever written on the Soviet campaigns.
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 | Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Buy used from: £1.18 Engaging and enthralling. Not strong on strategy and operational art, or on air force matters, but damned good on the plight of ordinary soldiers.
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 | Stalingrad: The Infernal Cauldron, 1942-1943 by Stephen Walsh
Buy used from: £25.08 This is the best introductory book. Relies on Hayward, Erickson, etc, but has a good overview and fantastic photos (some with erroneous captions; beware).
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 | Battle for Stalingrad: The 1943 Soviet General Staff Study by Louis C. Rotundo
Buy used from: £250.00 The Soviet General Staff's operational explanation of what they did wrong as well as right. Important.
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 | Lost Victories: War Memoirs of Hitler's Most Brilliant General by Erich Von Manstein
Buy used from: £6.02 Manstein fibs in places throughout this book, as Hayward discovered when researching in the German military archives, but it's still a fantastic first-person account by a military mastermind.
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| Third Reich: Road to Stalingrad by Time Life Books
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £4.50 For clear maps and good photos this is a must-have
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 | Stalingrad: Memories and Reassessments (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel
Buy used from: £3.42 Some people don't think this is entirely reliable, but as a memoir it is still filled with insights and is very moving.
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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 REMARKABLE first-hand account!!!
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 | The Eastern Front in Photographs: From Barbarossa to Stalingrad and Berlin by John Erickson
Buy used from: £8.70 Magnificent photo gallery of that worst of battles.
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 | Marshal Zhukov's Greatest Battles by Georgi K. Zhukov
Buy new: £11.95 / Used from: £7.96 Not as good on Stalingrad as Chuikov's out-of-print book, but still enlightening and excellent.
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