Hey /his/; I would like to know exactly of some credible and thoughtful reads on the successes and failures of Hitler and Stalin. Though WW2 is my main focus I would like if someone could point me to a book over Napoleon and Alexander the Great's military histories as well.
>pic somewhat related.
Read a few essays by Glantz. It's the most accurate Soviet portrayal of the war you can get in the west if you don't read snowrunes.
>>1083867
Overy, Russia's War
companion documentary: Russia's War: blood on the snow
>>1083867
>>1083867
Osprey have some nice books, there's a torrent somewhere online.
>>1087017
Just finished this and it's excellent, would definitely recommend. Starts with the beginning of Barbarossa.
For a general overview of the war I would HIGHLY recommend this. I've shilled stokesbury here before, but no one responds so maybe I'm the only one who cares about him. His writing is great at conveying the character of the war, both in terms of the men on the ground and the geopolitical circumstances. Just a great, holistic overview of the war that describes what drove the major players to do what they did, as well as how each decision fits into the larger picture with the benefit of hindsight.
I have the corresponding WWI volume and I've never read it.
>>1087123
I'm reading it now, quite interesting. I don't know much about WWI, so some of the campaigns are brand new to me - and it reads almost like a novel. Stokesbury's writing is great at breaking down the complexities of European politics that lead to WWI. Describing long-term paradigms and the conditions that fostered them is among his strengths.
>>1087085
Do you have a PDF copy?
Are there any translated books that are the personal recollections of German or Russian soldiers?
>>1087017
I read his Battle for Spain, which I fairly enjoyed
I was tempted to read Berlin, although he seems to have a meme reputation for some reason
>>1083867
say no more senpai:
annotated bibliographies on
napoleon
http://pastebin.com/rqnADNEp
alexander the great
http://pastebin.com/i92Wjwg2
World War II diplomatic and political relations
http://pastebin.com/xV4aKfRG
the challenge of fascism (has sections with books on nazi germany, hitler and the second world war)
http://pastebin.com/DhShAReV
russian and soviet armed forces (introductory books only shown)
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791279/obo-9780199791279-0050.xml
russian military history
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791279/obo-9780199791279-0052.xml
comparative politics in eurasia (only relevant section is the "soviet system", most of which examine stalin's system of government, if that's your thing)
http://pastebin.com/DMm1p9Ty
Cold War, 1945-1991 (only first sections are relevant, particularly the "soviet union" one, which have long views of the cold war starting at the russian revolution 1917 and one on Stalin and the early cold war, 1946 to 1953)
http://pastebin.com/eEbXk5kp
>>1087460
ayy, also the zhukov article starts out with a list of general works about wwii eastern front
>>1087261
Naw, it's $14 on amazon though.
http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-World-War-II/dp/0688085873?ie=UTF8&keywords=stokesbury&qid=1462396960&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
>>1087017
>Beevor
Don't make me sick
>>1087444
Possibly because he lacks the training to produce history and produces sentimental dreck based on tendential analysis of single unindicative primary sources?
You know, it might be that?
Check out Storm of Steel by Junger, it's a great book.
>>1089232
Oops! You seem to have made a <posting error>! You are not supposed to use a trip for attention whoring! Now that you know, you can fix the problem! :-)
For Hitler: the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is still the best despite the butthurt of uneducated /pol/ neckbeards
For Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar
>>1089424
You've got to be fucking kidding. Get out of here right wing journalist slime.
You do know that Montefiore "anonymously reviewed" his own work on Amazon? What other breaches of scholarly ethics wouldn't he sink to in self-promotion?
