 | The Forgotten Soldier: The true story of a young German soldier on the Russian front by Guy Sajer
Buy used from: £5.67 German foot-soldier's experiences on the Eastern Front
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 | Payback by Gert Ledig
Buy used from: £17.90 A German-written rejoinder to Len Deightons Bomber
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 | The Stalin Organ by Gert Ledig
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.01 Ledig's description of the Eastern Front
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 | I flew for the Fuhrer: Story of a German Airman (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Heinz Knoke
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.27 German pilot's diarised experiences
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 | Das Boot (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Lothar Gunther Buchheim
Buy new: £5.11 / Used from: £0.01 Kind of obvious for any list of WW2-based reading, I know, but still essential
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 | Cross of Iron (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Willi Heinrich
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Better written / more readable than anything Sven Hassel ever did
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 | Bomber: Events Relating to the Last Flight of an RAF Bomber Over Germany on the Night of June 31st, 1943 by Len Deighton
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 A classic piece of fiction, portraying both sides suffering through the hell it must have been
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 | Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 by Antony Beevor
Buy new: £14.44 / Used from: £0.01 Beevor's harrowing portrait of the final fall -- read it and weep
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 | Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Buy used from: £1.57 Stalingrad, Beevor's classic
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 | Barbarossa: The Russian German Conflict: The Russian German Conflict, 1941-45 (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Alan Clark
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £3.73 Perhaps dated, but always compelling and a superb starting point for learning about the Eastern Front
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 | The Fall of Berlin by Anthony Read
Buy new: £10.79 / Used from: £9.71 This came out before Beevor's Berlin, but an excellent, perhaps easier, portrayal
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 | Knight's Cross: Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel by Sir David Fraser
Buy used from: £0.63 Superb biography of Rommel from WW1 through to his campaigns and final days
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 | Last Days of Hitler by Hugh Trevor Roper
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £3.83 The original near-forensic examination of German fascism's last days -- still deservedly a classic
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 | Interrogations: Inside the Minds of the Nazi Elite by Richard Overy
Buy new: £10.46 / Used from: £7.24 Thorough (and perhaps ultimately very depressing) series of interviews with the functionaries of German fascism -- required reading for anyone wanting to evaluate the mindsets of the time and place
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 | Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk by Len Deighton
Buy used from: £0.26 Nearly exhaustive overview of the start of WW2
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