 | 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: $9.75 As a teenager the author in great detail documented in his diary the German occupation of his town. The author then joined the Red Army and fought the Germans in Latvia, Poland and Germany. He first fought as a regular infantryman, then as a Red Army scout (recce soldier) and finally served as a military interpreter. What happened next to the author may surprise many readers.
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 | RED ROAD FROM STALINGRAD: Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman by Mansur Abdulin
Buy new: $21.77 / Used from: $9.81 This is the memoir of Mansur Abdulin, a Tartar (Turkic ethnic group in the USSR) soldier of the WWII Red Army. The book provides good insights into what it meant to be a regular soldier of the Red Army. All too often the Red Army is still today viewed as a "grey mass". Mansur Abdulin shows that the Red Army, just like all armies, consisted of individuals.
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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: $19.81 In this book the Red Army is viewed from inside by Gabriel Temkin, a Pole (Polish Jew). The way he came to join the Red Army is interesting in itself. Temkin provides both good testimony of the fighting on the Eastern Front and shows the relationship between the many nationalities within the Red Army.
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 | Fighting for the Soviet Motherland: Recollections from the Eastern Front by Dmitriy Loza
Buy new: $55.00 / Used from: $7.00 This is the WWII Red Army from the viewpoint of a tank officer. Rich with detail about the everyday life in the WWII Red Army and what it was like to fight the German Wehrmacht. Excellent translation work.
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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 The Western Allies provided the Red Army with several thousand tanks. Here you can see what it was like to command a unit consisting of US-made Sherman tanks on the Eastern Front. It turns out that the Sherman could be used to pretty good effect if one understood all the pros and cons of the design. A must-read for WWII armor buffs. The translation is perfect.
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 | Blood on the Shores: Soviet Naval Commandos in World War II by Viktor Leonov
Buy used from: $4.48 The WWII memoirs of a Soviet naval special forces (spetsnaz in Russian) officer who twice was made a Hero of the Soviet Union (comparable to a German Knight´s Cross). The fighting in Arctic Europe and in the Far East is in focus here. Highly recommended for all special forces buffs and those interested in Arctic Europe during WWII. This book should be reprinted as it is quality stuff.
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| Over the Abyss by Ilya Grigo Starinov
Buy used from: $1.00 This is the autobiography of a real veteran of Soviet special operations (spetsnaz in Russian) and covers both such ops in Spain during the Spanish Civil War and during WWII. This is the most fascinating book about WWII Soviet special ops that I have read to date.
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 | Tank Rider: Into the Reich with the Red Army by Evgeni Bessonov
Buy used from: $2.40 A good read after a weak start. Includes some fascinating combat details. Bessonov was an officer in the 49th Mech. Brigade of the 6th Mech. Corps of the 4th Tank Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front.
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 | Attack of the Airacobras: Soviet Aces, American P-39S, and the Air War Against Germany (Modern War Studies) by D. F. Loza
Buy used from: $41.10 The air war on the Eastern Front gets very real through this book which has been superbly translated by James F. Gebhardt. The focus is on lend-lease Airacobras.
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