Season 3

The Soviet Union

  • Concerning Questions of Agrarian Policy in the U.S.S.R Speech Delivered at a Conference of Marxist Students of Agrarian Questions by Joseph Stalin (https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1929/12/27.htm)
  • Deep Battle: The Brainchild of Marshal Tukhachevskii by Richard Simpkin in associated with John Erickson
  • Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism by Tatiana Linkhoeva
  • Soviet Air Force Theory, 1918-1945 by James Sterrett
  • Soviet Military Operational Art: In Pursuit of Deep Battle by David M. Glantz
  • Stalin’s Ocean-Going Fleet: Soviet Naval Strategy and Shipbuilding Programmes 1935-1953 by Jurgen Rohwer and Mikhail S. Monakov
  • Agrarian Collectivism in the Soviet Union by Lazar Volin (1937)
  • Collectivization of Agriculture in the Soviet Union by W. Ledejinsky (1934)
  • Comments on the Demographic Consequences of the Holodomor by Oleh Wolowyna
  • Comments on the Short-Term Consequences of the Holodomor by Oleg Khlevniuk and Marta D. Olynyk
  • A Note on the Consequence of the Expansion of the Red Army on the Eve of World War II by Roger Reese (1989)
  • Construction History in the Soviet Union - Russia: 1930-2005 Emergence, Development and Disappearance of a Technical Discipline by Sergej G. Federov
  • Demographic Trends in Ukraine: Past, Present, and Future by Anatole Romaniuk and Oleksandr Gladun
  • The Dilimma of Prisoners: Choice During Stalin’s Great Terror, 1936-38 by Peter Z. Grossman
  • Fear and Belief in the USSR’s “Great Terror”: Response to Arrest, 1935-1939 by Robert W. Thurston (1986)
  • ‘Karelian Fever’: The Finnish Immigrant Community during Stalin’s Purges by Michael Gelb
  • The First Five-Year Plan and the Geography of Soviet Defence Industry by David R. Stone
  • Further Thoughts on the First Soviet Five Year Plan by R.W. Davies and S.G. Wheatcroft
  • All Stalin’s Women: gender and Power in Soviet Art of the 1930s by Susan E. Reid
  • Labour, the Left, and the Stalinist Purges of the Late 1930s by Paul Corthorn
  • Observing the Soviets: U.S. Army Attaches in Eastern Europe ruing the 1930s by David M. Glantz
  • The Origins of Soviet Collective Security Policy, 1930-32 by J.A. Large
  • Plans for Stalin’s War Machine: Tukhachevskii and Military-Economic Planning, 1925-1941 by Lennart Samuelson
  • Population Losses in the Holodomor and the Destruction of Related Archives: New Archival Evidence by Hennadii Boriak
  • The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Soviet Military by Peter Whitewood
  • The Red Army and the Munich Crisis by G. Jukes
  • Red Army Doctrine and Training on the Eve of the Second World War by Amnon Sella
  • Red Army Opposition to Forced Collectivization, 1929-1930: The Army Wavers by Roger R. Reese
  • Red Army Professionalism and the Communist Party, 1918-1941 by Roger R. Reese
  • “Rehabilitating” Stalin by Nina Khrushcheva
  • Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: The Red Army and the Soviet Socialist State, 1917-1930 by Mark von Hagen
  • The Soviet Diplomatic Corps and Stalin’s Purges by Alastair Kocho-Williams
  • Soviet Economic Growth: 1928-1985 by Gur Ofer (1987)
  • The Soviet High Command: A Military-Political History, 1918-1941 by John Erickson
  • Soviet Labor Policy in the First Five-Year Plan: The Dneprostroi Experience by Anne D. Rassweiler (1983)
  • The Soviet Military-Economic Effort during the Second Five Year Plan (1933-1937) by Mark Harrison and R.W. Davies
  • Soviet Sport and Transnational Mass Culture in the 1930s by Barbara Keys
  • Stalin at War, 1918-1953: Patterns of Violence and Foreign Threat by David Shearer
  • Stalin, War Communism and Collectivization by O.A. Narkiewicz (1966)
  • Stalin’s Reluctant Soldiers: A Social Histoyr of th eRed Army 1925-1941 by Roger R. Reese
  • Stalinist Planning for Economic Growth 1933-1952 by Eugene Zaleski
  • The Purge of the Red Army and the Soviet Mass Operations, 1937-38 by Peter Whitewood
  • The Soviet Economy, 1917-1991: Its Life and Afterlife by Mark Harrison
  • Stalin’s Other War: Soviet Grand Strategy, 1939-1941 by Albert L. Weeks
  • Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator by Oleg V. Khlevniuk and Nora Seligman Favorov
  • Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
  • Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
  • Moscow, 1937 by KARL SCHLÖGEL

The Baltics

  • Finland and Estonia: Cultural and Political Relations, 1917-1940 by Toivo U. Raun
  • The German Treaties with Estonia and Latvia of 7 June 1939 - Bargaining Ploy or an Alternative for German-Soviet Understanding? by Rolf Ahmann
  • Molotov: A Biography by Derek Watson
  • Nationalism and education in Latvia, 1918-1940 by Gaston Lacombe
  • Political Opposition in Soviet Estonia 1940-1987 by Mare Kukk
  • Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator by Oleg V. Khlevniuk and Nora Seligman Favorov

The Winter War

  • The Winter War by Robert Edwards
  • Winter War 1939-40: Finnish Soldier Versus Soviet Soldier by David Campbell
  • Finland at War: The Winter War 1939-40 by Vesa Nenya with Peter Munter and Toni Wirtanen
  • Finland at War 1939-45 by Philip Jowett & Brent Snodgrass Illustrated** by R. Ruggeri
  • Finnish Military Effectiveness in the Winter War, 1939-1940 by Pasi Tuunainen
  • A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940 by William Trotter
  • Lessons of the Winter War: A Study in the Military Effectiveness of the Red Army, 1939-1940 by Roger R. Reese
  • Stalinism and the Soviet-Finnish War, 1939-40: Crisis Management, Censorship, and Control by Malcolm L.G. Spencer
  • Swedish Volunteers in the Russo-Finnish Winter War, 1939-1940 by Martina Sprague
  • The Finnish-Soviet Winter War 1939-40: Stalin’s Hollow Victory by David Murphy
  • The Mannerheim Line 1920-39: Finnish Fortifications of the Winter War by Bair Irincheev
  • The unheeded warning and the winter war 1939-1940 by Pavel Aptekar & Ol’ga Dudorova

The Naval War

  • World War II at Sea by Craig L. Symonds
  • U-boat Tactics in World War II by Gordon Williamson
  • The War For the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II by Evan Mawdsley
  • The Iron Sea: How the Allies Hunted and Destroyed Hitler’s Warships by Simon Read
  • The Battleship Builders: Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships by Ian Johnston and Ian Buxton
  • Stalin’s Big-fleet Program by Milan L. Hauner
  • The RAF in the Maritime War Volume II: The Atlantic and Home Waters - The Defensive Phase - September 1939 to June 1941 by Air Ministry Air Historical Branch
  • Raeder versus Wegener: Conflict in German Naval Strategy by Kenneth P. Hansen
  • German Naval Strategy During World War II by Friedrich Ruge (1953)
  • The Origins and Role of German Naval History in the Interwar Period 1918-1939 by Keith W. Bird
  • The Kriegsmarine and the Aircraft Carrier: The Design and Operational Purpose of the “Graf Zeppelin”, 1933-1940 by Marcus Faulkner
  • The Failure of German Sea Power, 1914-1945: Mahan, Tirpitz, and Raeder Reconsidered by Holger H. Herwig
  • Command Decisions: Langsdorff and the Battle of the River Plate by David Miller
  • Battle of River Plate: A Grand Delusion by Richard Woodman
  • Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II by Paul Kennedy
  • Very Special Intelligence: The Story of the Admiralty’s Operational Intelligence Centre 1939-1945 by Patrick Beesly
  • World War II at Sea: A Global History by Craig L. Symonds
  • Hitler’s U-Boat War by Clay Blair
  • Britain’s Anti-Submarine Capability 1919-1939 by George Franklin

Invasion of Norway

  • Operation Weserübung and the Origins of Joint Warfare by Richard D. Hooker Jr. and Christopher Coglianese
  • The Gathering Storm by Geirr H. Haarr
  • Anatomy of a Campaign: The British Fiasco in Norway, 1940 by John Kiszely
  • Attack at Dawn by Ron Cope
  • Denmark and Norway 1940 - Hitler’s Boldest Operation by Douglas C. Dildy
  • Diversion in the East: The Western Allies, Scandinavia, and Russia, November 1939-1940 by Glen St. J. Barclay
  • Hitler’s Pre-Emptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940 by Henrik O. Lunde
  • Norway 1940 by Francois Kersaudy
  • Noway 1940-45: The Resistance Movement by Olav Riste and Berit Nökleby
  • The Battle for Norway, 1940–1942 by John Grehan and Martin Mace
  • The German Invasion of Norway: April 1940 by Gierr H. Haarr
  • The Campaign in Norway: April-June 1940 RAF Narrative

Fall of France

  • “Fighting to the Last Frenchman”? Reflections on the BEF Deployment to France and the Strains in the Franco-British Alliance, 1939-40 by Martin S. Alexander
  • French Foreign and Defence Policy 1918-1940: The Decline and Fall of a Great Power Edited by Robert Boyce
  • A Reassessment of Anglo-French Strategy during the Phony War, 1939-1940 by Talbot Charles Imlay
  • Strategy and Scapegoatism: Reflections on the French National Catastrophe, 1940 by Nicole Jordan
  • After Dunkirk: The French Army’s Performance against ‘Case Red’, 25 May to 25 June 1940 by Martin S. Alexander
  • Air Battle for Dunkirk: 26 May - 3 June 1940 by Norman Franks
  • After Mers-el-Kébir: The Armed Neutrality of the Vichy French Nay, 1940-43 by Martin Thomas
  • Avoiding Armageddon: From the Great War to the Fall of France, 1918-40 by Jeremy Black
  • Bartholomew Committee Final Report
  • The Battle of the Belgian Plain, 12-14 May 1940: The First Great Tank Battle by Jeffrey A. Gunsburg (1992)
  • The Battle of Gembloux, 14-15 May 1940: The “Blitzkrieg” Checked by Jeffrey A. Gunsburg
  • La Grande Illusion: Belgian and Dutch Strategy Facing Germany, 1919-May 1940 (Part II) by Jeffery A. Gunsburg
  • Belgium Leaves the War, 1940 by Thomas J. Knight (1969)
  • Blitzkrieg France 1940 by Michael Olive and Robert Edwards
  • Blitzkrieg in the West: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Ian Baxter
  • British Establishment Perspectives on France, 1936-40 by Michael Dockrill
  • Britain’s War: Into Battle 1937-1941 by Daniel Todman
  • The ‘Fifth Column’ and the British Experience of Retreat, 1940 by Glyn Prysor
  • CAB 66-7-48: British Strategy in a Certain Eventuality
  • CAB 66-3
  • CAB 66-8-16
  • Case Red by Robert Forczyk
  • Defeat and Division: France at War, 1939-1942 by Douglas Porch
  • Domestic Politics and the Fall of France in 1940 by William D. Irvine
  • The Battle for the Maginot Line, 1940 by Clayton Donnell
  • Dunkirk and the Popular Memory of Britain at War, 1940-58 by Penny Summerfield
  • Dunkirk and the Fall of France by Geoffrey Stewart
  • End of the Affair: The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance, 1939-40 by Eleanor M. Gates
  • Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 by Julian Jackson
  • Fallschirmjäger: German Paratrooper 1935-45 by Bruce Quarrie
  • France’s Occupation Costs and the War in the East: The Contribution to the German War Economy, 1940-4 by Marcel Boldorf and Jonas Scherner
  • The French and the British Field Force: Moral Support or Material Contribution? by William Philpott and Martin S. Alexander
  • The French Defeat of 1940: Reassessments: Introduction by Joel Blatt
  • The ‘Clean Wehrmacht’ in the German-occupied Netherlands, 1940-5 by Jennifer L. Foray
  • The History of the Panzerwaffe: Volume 1 1939-42 by Thomas Anderson
  • Italiani Brava Gente? The Italian occupation of southeastern France in the Second World War, 1940-1943 by Emanuele Sica
  • Marc Bloch and the drôle de guerre Prelude to the “Strange Defeat” by Carole Fink
  • Marc Bloch and the drôle de guerre: Prelude to the “Strange Defeat” by Carole Fink
  • The Role of Military Administration in German-Occupied Belgium, 1940-1944 by Jay Howard Geller
  • Military Origins of the Fall of France by A.F. Kovacs (1943)
  • The Netherlands Military Intelligence Summaries 1939-1940 and the Defeat in the Blitzkrief of May 1940 by André Ausems (1986)
  • Operations in Belgium and France, 1940: First Phase - The Battle of Flanders by Allen F. Clark Jr (1941)
  • ‘The RAF Must Fly the Flag’: The British Army’s Interpretation of Tactical Air Power during the Battle of France, 1940 by Matthew Powell
  • Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940 by Marc Bloch (1968)
  • The Strategic Air Offensive against Germany: The Early Phase, May-September 1940 by H.W. Koch
  • Strategy for Victory: The Development of British Tactical Air Power, 1919-1943 by David Ian Hall
  • Prelude to Downfall: The British Offer of Union to France, June 1940 by Avi Shlaim
  • The Evacuation From Dunkirk: Operation Dynamo, 26 May-4 June 1940 by W.J.R. Gardner
  • The Fall of France in the Second World War: History and Memory by Richard Carswell
  • The Riom Trial: Marshal Petain’s Attack on the Third Republic by James Estel Williams
  • The Role of the French Air Force: The Battle of France 1940 by David E. Griffen (1974)
  • The Royal Navy at Dunkirk: Commanding Officers’ Accounts of British Warships in Action During Operational Dynamo by Martin Mace
  • War Comes to the Netherlands: September 1939-May 1940 by Henry L. Mason (1963)
  • Maxime Weygand and the Fall of France: A Study in Civil-Military Relations by Philip C.F. Bankwitz (1959)
  • Why did Gort Change His Mind on 25 May, 1940? Genesis of a Myth by Charles More
  • Young People in Vichy France and Forced Labour in Germany by W.D. Halls
  • To Lose a Battle by Alistair Horne
  • Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry Into the Fall of France in 1940 by William L. Shirer
  • Dunkirk by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
  • The Blitzkrieg Legend by Karl-Heinz Frieser
  • The Breaking Point: Sedan and the Fall of France, 1940 by Robert A. Doughty
  • Blitzkrieg by Lloyd Clarck