 | Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front, 1942-1945 (Modern War Studies) by Boris Gorbachevsky
Buy new: $24.39 / Used from: $18.00 The Russian version was very well received, this edition includes quite a few stories which the Russian edition didn't. Highly recommended, simply read what Glantz has to say about it!
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 | Commanding the Red Army's Sherman Tanks: The World War II Memoirs of Hero of the Soviet Union Dmitriy Loza by Dmitriy Loza
Buy new: $44.00 / Used from: $34.39 An excellent account of a Red Army Tanker and the Lend Lease tanks he served on.
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 | ON THE ROADS OF WAR: A Soviet Cavalryman on the Eastern Front by Ivan Yakushin
Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $19.50 For those interested in a glimpse of how cavalry fought on the Eastern front and to what extent they contributed to the victory over Nazi Germany.
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 | My Just War: The Memoir of a Jewish Red Army Soldier in World War II by Gabriel Temkin
Buy used from: $18.19 An excellent account of a Jewish soldier in the Red Army.
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 | RED ROAD FROM STALINGRAD: Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman by Mansur Abdulin
Buy new: $21.77 / Used from: $9.81 To date one of the BEST memoirs I've read from a Red Army soldier, highly recommended.
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 | Red Partisan: Memoirs of a Soviet Resistance Fighter on the Eastern Front by Nikolai I. Obryn'ba
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $22.11 Soviet Partisan, highly recommended.
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 | PENALTY STRIKE: The Memoirs of a Red Army Penal Company Commander 1943-45 (Soviet Memories of War) (v. 1) by Alexander Pyl'cyn
Buy used from: $47.69 Finally a book was put out which puts Penal Formations in a context, if you can find a copy, grab it!
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 | T-34 in Action by Artem Drabkin
Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $21.11 A good look at how tankers operated, what obstacles they had to overcome, etc.
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 | RED STAR AIRACOBRA: Memoirs of a Soviet Fighter Ace 1941-45 (Soviet Memories of War) (v. 2) by Evgeniy Mariinskiy
Buy new: $49.95 / Used from: $30.71 Excellent book on the Air War over the Eastern Front.
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 | Red Star Against the Swastika: The Story of a Soviet Pilot over the Eastern Front by Vasily B Emelianenko
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $22.85 Another favorite of mine, also a memoir from a pilot.
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 | On the Road to Stalingrad by Zoya Matveyevna Smirnova-Medvedeva
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $10.09 Female soldier, an interesting account.
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 | RED AIR FORCE AT WAR BARBAROSSA AND THE RETREAT TO MOSCOW: Recollections of Soviet Fighter Pilots on the Eastern Front (The Red Air Force at War) by Artem Drabkin
Buy new: $30.36 / Used from: $21.46 Highly recommended, a lot of excellent accounts from the first days of the war.
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 | ESCAPE FROM AUSCHWITZ by Andrej Pogozhev
Buy new: $23.59 / Used from: $9.95 Very interesting book, possibly the only one out, about a Red Army POW and his time in Auschwitz as well as his successful breakout from Auschwitz!
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 | Over the Abyss by Ilya Grigo Starinov
Buy used from: $0.99 Great account of a Red Army soldier. Very hard to categorize it as he did so much in so many different wars, etc.
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 | Victims, Victors: From Nazi Occupation to the Conquest of Germany as Seen by a Red Army Soldier by Roman Kravchenko-berezhnoy
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $9.98 Not so much a Red Army memoir as this book is mainly made up of the authors journal entries when under occupation. But there are a lot of interesting recollections and events that will undoubtedly make for an engrossing read.
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 | 800 Days on the Eastern Front: A Russian Soldier Remembers World War II (Modern War Studies) by Nikolai Litvin
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $11.80 Great book, the translator does an excellent job, (I'll have another book that he's translated later on in this list, it's due to come out later in 2008) a lot of interesting stories and experiences, worth the read.
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 | Swastika in the Gunsight: Memoirs of a Russian Fighter Pilot 1941-45 by Igor Kaberov
Buy used from: $16.49 Another fighter pilot memoir.
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 | From Stalingrad to Pillau: A Red Army Artillery Officer Remembers the Great Patriotic War (Modern War Studies) by Isaak Kobylyanskiy
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $6.21 An excellent book, see my review of it.
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 | From Leningrad to Hungary: Notes of a Red Army Soldier, 1941-1946 (Soviet (Russian) Military Experience) by E. Moniushko
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 | BOMBER PILOT ON THE EASTERN FRONT: 307 Missions Behind Enemy Lines (Red Air Force at War) by Vasily Reshetnikov
Buy new: $30.36 / Used from: $34.66 Recommended, a lot of fascinating stories.
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