The Road to Stalingrad: Stalin's War With Germany (Erickson, John, Stalin's War With Germany, V. 1.)

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Summary: the Best Book on Russia's War
Review: this is my favorite work on the great patriotic war. it is superior to alexander werths tome due to its meticulous detail and tough narrative.... This is the only book that shows the east prussia operation in all its ferocity.

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Summary: Don't buy the paperback
Review: What is written is an excellent book. Full of information and detail. But there are no maps - not one. So the only way to follow the book is to have a map of Russia and at times you are going over the map once per paragraph.
If it had included maps showing the location of the troop movements discussed, it would be a great book. Without any maps it's painful to useless.