Good reads on the red army advance

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ryathoe

Phoenix wrote: »

Anyone recommend good books on the red armies push from the USSR all the way to Berlin?

There is a good book by Richard Overy - I think it is called "Russia's War".

mattjack

Anthony Beevor , Berlin the Downfall and the book "the enemy at the gates" will give you a great perspective on the way the Russians turns things around.
The Road to Berlin is good too.

kowloon

Overy's book is good, anything by Antony Beevor is an enjoyable read though Downfall doesn't cover the full period you're after. Glantz & House have written a ton of stuff on the period but it's not as exciting a read, try 'When Titans Clashed'. There's another book called 'Ivan's War' by Catherine somethingorother that's good if you're interested in the perspective of the average Soviet's experience. If you can read Russian you'll find a load of material not popular over here.

Axel Lamp

I second (or third) Overy's book 'Russia's War'

TerrorFirmer

Although it only covers late 44 till the fall of Berlin, Anthony Beevors Berlin is an absolute must read.

jonniebgood1

'Writer at war' by Vasily Grossman. I would recommend it highly as a slightly different way of looking at the period.

Sand

I'd second Ivan's War by Catherine Merridale. It's not a campaign history, you wont find battles, dates, orders of battles etc. It's an attempt to describe the experiences of Russian/Soviet veterans (in their own words) from training through service to death and how that changed and adjusted over the course of the war plus the interaction of those soldiers with the wider Soviet/Russian people including their families and wives both during and after war up to the modern day when the Soviet Union the veterans fought for no longer exists and they have been used as props for a sometimes ugly state nationalism. It's a truly excellent book that offers something you wont find through wikipedia.

Manach

Ditto on previous suggestions, and also 1945 by Ian Kershaw. Not on the Red Army per se, but more on the Nazi reaction to their advance on the German heartland.

BDSC1964

These books are good but cannot compare to the accuracey of the likes of Paul Carel writing on the German side brilliant stuff. Unfortunately we will never get a true reflection of the plight of the soviet soldier and detailed operational accounts due the repressive nature of the stalinist and Kruschev regimes and the communists denial of their initial defeats. There isnt even a reliable inventory of the soviet army for June 1941. Not even a decent move made akin to private ryan.