Ghosts of the Ostfront

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Archives episodes 27-30

Part One covering the conflict between the Germans and the Soviet Union in the Second World War. Dan gives an introduction to the subject and discusses the causes and opening moves of Operation Barbarossa.

In Part Two of the Ostfront series covering WW2 on the Eastern Front, Dan looks at the attempt to take Moscow and the many compelling stories surrounding the momentous1941 German offensive.

In Part Three of the Ostfront series covering WW2 on the Eastern Front, Dan looks at the situation in the U.S.S.R. during 1942 and early 1943, including the dreadful Battle of Stalingrad.

In the final episode of the horror story that is the Eastern Front the tale descends into unimaginable darkness as vengeance is called down on Germany. This graphic episode is not for young ears.

Keywords: Second, world, war, two, Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, Russia, Nazi, Jew, Poland, partisan, Barbarossa, Wehrmacht, Soviet, union, Stalingrad, Eastern, front, U.S.S.R., communism, Bolshevik, Germany, Axis, Allies, East, Eastern, Front, Berlin, red, army, USSR, Warsaw, uprising, Kursk, rape, Citadel, atrocities, SS, Bagration, Guderian, tanks

Show Notes
1.“The Forgotten Soldier” by Guy Sajer
2.“When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler” by David Glantz
3.“Blood, Tears, and Folly: An Objective Look at World War ll” by Len Deighton
4.“The War of the World” by Niall Ferguson
5.“The Second World War” by Winston S. Churchill
6.“Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler
7.“Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front” by Gunther K Koschorrek
8.“Barbarossa” by Alan Clark
9.“On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society” by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
10.“1812: Napoleon's Russian Campaign” by Richard K. Riehn
11."Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front, 1942-1945" by Boris Gorbachevsky
12.“Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945” by Richard Overy
13.“Lost Victories: The War Memoirs of Hitler's Most Brilliant General” by Field Marshal Erich von Manstein
14."The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II: Over 200 First-Hand Accounts from the Six Years That Tore the World Apart" by Jon E. Lewis
15.“War Of Extermination: The German Military In World War II” by Heer Naumann, Hannes Heer, and Klaus Naumann
16.“The Great Terror: A Reassessment” by Robert Conquest
17.“Inside the Third Reich” by Albert Speer
18.“Aftermath: The Remnants of War: From Landmines to Chemical Warfare–The Devastating Effects of Modern Combat” by Donovan Webster
19.“Stalin: Breaker of Nations” by Robert Conquest
20.“Hitler's World View: A Blueprint for Power” by Eberhard Jäckel and Herbert Arnold
21.“National Socialism and the Religion of Nature” by Robert A. Pois
22.“Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945” by Catherine Merridale
23.“The German Army and Genocide: Crimes Against War Prisoners, Jews, and other Civilians in the East, 1939-1944” by Hamburg Institute for Social Research and Scott Abbott
24.“Panzer Leader” by General Heinz Guderian
25.“The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich” by William L. Shirer
26.“The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II” by Andrew Nagorski
27.“Berezina” by Ira Meistrich from “The Experience of War”
28.“Stalingrad” by Anthony Beevor
29.“Stalingrad: Memories of Hell” by Joachim Wieder and Heinrich von Einsiedel
30.“A Lousy Story” by Vladimir Lemport from “The Experience of War”
31.“A Dictionary of Battles” by Brigadier Peter Young
32.“Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin” by Cornelius Ryan
33. “The fall of Berlin 1945” by Anthony Beevor
34. “Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945” by Max Hastings
35. “Four Men Went to War” by Bruce Lewis
36. www.Historynet.com


Publish Dates and Duration:
Ep. 27 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 - 1:05:54
Ep. 28 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 - 1:28:30
Ep. 29 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 - 1:30:19
Ep. 30 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 - 1:39:34