ASL Reading List

(And some general military history thrown in for good measure!)

Here is a list of reference materials for ASL (Advanced Squad Leader) players and scenario designers (plus any other military enthusiasts).  If I couldn't find it on Amazon, I'd try ABE (Advanced Book Exchange) an online collection of various used book dealers.  
Individual links take you to (if available).

First off, you should all be on gamesquad.com on the ASL forums.

 

West Front   Battle of the Bulge D-Day and Battle for Normandy Blitzkrieg Campaigns Campaigns in Sicily and Italy Battle of the Hürtgen Forest Drive For Germany East Front   General Overviews Battle for Berlin Barbarossa Russo-Finnish War Stalingrad Campaign Kursk Campaign Soviet Counterattacks 1942-1943 Soviet Attacks 1944-1945 Various Series Osprey New Vanguard Books Osprey Campaign Books

Personal Accounts Unit Histories Desert War  Pacific Theater  Weapon Systems  Not Specifically ASL Related  Biographies  Politics  Air War  Strategy and Tactics  Armies at War  Command  General Histories  Espionage  General Reference  Other Military History Post WWII Battles & Campaigns Weapon Systems

Leavenworth Papers Link takes you to the Combat Studies Institute which has downloadable monographs on a variety of military topics, including some great battle and campaign books. Ballantine Illustrated History of the Violent Century Series This is a series of paperbacks that came out in the 70's dealing with all aspects of 20th Century conflict.  They have quite a bit of information for their size and are written by a number of "big name" military writers.  They are very collectible and can really only be found in used book stores and on Ebay. AFV G2 magazine A 1970's armor magazine with an emphasis on stuff for modelers, but lots of info on armor related stuff.  Mostly overviews, but interesting, nonetheless.  This list may help you if you are looking to Ebay an issue or two. Specific ASL publications Mark Pitcavage has a comprehensive list and review of probably every ASL product produced.  You can also buy his Scenario Designers Guide there!

The following categories and many of the titles were kindly provided by Michael Licari (from the ASL mailing list).
I have not had the time to cull duplicates or hyperlink everything to Amazon...but I will as time allows.
A "?" before a book means that I cannot find any listing of a book by that title anywhere, if you can help out, email me about it.

West Front

 Battle of the Bulge

Bastogne by Guy Franz Arend
This is a day-by-day, hour-by-hour account of the battle of Bastogne.  It has a considerable amount of detail (though some of the captions are obviously wrong), and a lot of one-of-a-kind photos I've never seen before.  Oddly, it was printed for the Bastogne Historical Center in Belgium in 1987.  It is a hard back and is 335 pages long  (I'm only giving all this detail because I've never seen or heard of this book before).

Hitler's Last Gamble - Battle of the Bulge December 1944-January 1945 by Trevor N Dupuy

The Devil's Adjutant, by Michael Reynolds 
This book seems almost purpose-written for the ASL KGP enthusiast; with pertinent, detailed discussions covering KGP from start to end. Detailed discussion of the actions at Stoumont, Cheneux,and La Gleize, as well as other nearby towns/villages. The maps are excellent. Brief Malmady discussion. Detailed OOBs, ETC, right down to the eventual "walk- out" from La Gleize.

A Time for Trumpets by Charles B MacDonald

Battle: The Story of the Bulge  by John Toland

Bastogne: Battle of the Bulge  by Michael Tolhurst

The Battle of the Bulge in Luxembourg: Volume I  by Roland Gaul

The Battle of the Bulge in Luxembourg: Volume II  by Roland Gaul

Hitler's Ardennes Offensive: The German View of the Battle of the Bulge   by Danny Parker  

Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Ardennes Offensive, 1944-1945  by Danny Parker

Seven Roads to Hell  by Donald Burgett

Death of a Division   by Charles Whiting

A Blood-Dimmed Tide by Gerald Astor

The Battle of the Bulge by Robert E Merriam

Bastogne  by Atwood Marshall   

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D-Day and Battle for Normandy

From OSS to Green Berets: the Birth of Special Forces by Aaron Bank
Col. Aaron Bank is best known as founder of American Special Forces, commonly known as the "Green Berets." He is also famous for his exploits as an OSS officer, parachuting into France to coordinate and activate the French resistance and organizing an operation intended to capture Adolf Hitler.

Decision in Normandy by Alexander McKee

Decision Normandy by Carlo D'Este

Pegasus Bridge by Stephen Ambrose
Great micro-history of a small action...

Normany 1944: German Military Organization, Combat Power, and Organizational Effectiveness by Niklas Zetterling

Victory at Mortain by Mark Reardon

Beyond the Beachhead by Joseph Balkoski

Invasion 1944 by Hans Spiedel

Six Armies in Normandy  by John Keegan

Last Round Against Rommel: Battle of the Normandy Beachhead   Alexander McKee

After D-Day  by James Jay Carafano

D-Day: Spearhead of Invasion by Ralph W Thompson

Omaha Beach: A Flawed Victory by Adrian Lewis

Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy by Max Hastings

The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 by Cornelius Ryan

Bataille De Normandie: Normandy Invasion 11 June to 29 August 1944 (Album Memorial) by Jean Pierre Benamou

Saving the Breakout: The 30th Division's Heroic Stand at Mortain, August 7-12, 1944 by Alwyn Featherston

D-Day by Warren Tute

A Fine Night for Tanks: The Road to Faliase  by Ken Tout

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Blitzkrieg Campaigns

The Battle of France, 1940 by Philip Warner

Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquest of France  by Ernest May

The Fall of Eben Emael by James E Mrazek

France : Calais (Battleground Europe) by John Cooksey

Hitler's Blitzkrieg Campaigns by JE Kaufmann

Blitzkrieg by Len Deighton  

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Campaigns in Sicily and Italy

Home Was Never Like This by Col Doyle Yardley
Written from the personal diaries -1942-1945 - of Col. Doyle Yardley, Commander of America's first Combat Paratrooper Unit, the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion.

He details the formation, training and deployment of the 509th in England, North Africa and Southern Italy. Col. Yardley was wounded in Southern Italy and taken prisoner by the German Army. He spent 17 months as a POW at Oflag 64, Schubin, Poland . The diaries mention hundreds of fellow soldiers and is fully indexed.

His WWII American perspective reveals a heart-wrenching and often humorous look into his life and the lives of hundreds of others involved in or affected by the war.

We Jumped to Fight by Edson Duncan Raff 
Raff was an officer in the US Army and author of a book on paratroopers. He served as Commanding Officer of one of the first American paratroop units to jump into combat, the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion, during Operation Torch. His book was based on his experience in that operation and was published in 1944.

He spent time as an airborne planner on General Omar Bradley's staff and was assigned by General Matthew Ridgway to command the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment's armored sea-landing troops on D-Day. Due to casualties, he was transferred shortly thereafter (15 June 1944) to command the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Raff led that Regiment through the rest of the war, including its participation in Operation Varsity.

After the war in 1954, Raff would command the 77th Special Forces Group, based at Fort Bragg and is credited by Lieutenant General William Yarborough as the "father" of the then-controversial green beret now routinely worn by US Army Special Forces.

Ortona: Canada's Epic World War II Battle , by Mark Zuehlke 

The Liri Valley: Canada's World War II Breakthrough to Rome, by Mark Zuehlke 

Cassino: Portrait of a Battle, by Fred Majdalany

The War North of Rome: June 1944-May 1945 by Thomas R Brooks

Fatal Decision: Anzio and the Battle for Rome by Carlo D'Este

Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily July-August 1943 by Carlo D'Este  

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Battle of the Hürtgen Forest

The Bloody Forest, by Gerald Astor

Hell in Hürtgen Forest: The Ordeal and Triumph of an American Infantry Regiment by Robert Sterling Rush

A Dark and Bloody Ground by Edward G Miller

The Battle of the Huertgen Forest by Charles Brown MacDonald  

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Drive For Germany

A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan

Tug of War: The Canadian Victory That Opened Antwerp, by Denis Whitaker

Rhineland: The Battle to End the War, by Denis Whitaker 

Battle of the Reichswald  by Peter Elstob (Ballantine Illustrated History Series)

The Race for the Rhine Bridges by Alexander McKee

The View from the Turret by William Folkestad

Is Paris Burning?  by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre

The Road to Victory: The Story of the Elite WWII 2nd Battalion Rangers by Morris Prince

Raid: The Untold Story of Patton's Secret Mission by Richard Baron, Abe Baum, and Richard Goldhurst

The Forgotten Battle: Overloon and the Maas Salient by Korthals Altes 

Patton's Last Battle by Charles Whiting

Lost Battalions  by Franz Steidl

Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945 by Stephen Ambrose

Bloody Aachen (West Wall Series) by Charles Whiting  

Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose (Don't forget the Band of Brothers DVD!) 

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East Front

 General Overviews

Steel Storm - Waffen-SS Panzer Battles on the Eastern Front 1943-1945 by Tim Ripley

Hitler's Greatest Defeat: Army Group Centre by Paul Adair

When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler by David Glantz & Jonathan House

? Die Heeresgruppe Sued   Wagener

War on the Eastern Front by James Sidney Lucas

The Russo-German War, 1941-45 by Albert Seaton

Barbarossa by Alan Clark

War in the East: The Russo-German Conflict 1941-1945 by the staff of Strategy and Tactics magazine

Hitler's War in the East: A Critical Assessment   Rolf-Dieter Müller and Gerd Uberschär  

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Battle for Berlin

The Fall of Berlin by Anthony Read and David Fisher

The Bunker  by James O'Donnell

Voices From the Bunker by Pierre Galante and Eugene Silianoff

The Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan

Berlin: Story of a Battle by Andrew Tully  

The Russians and Berlin by Erich Kuby  

Last Days of the Third Reich by James Lucas

The Last 100 Days by John Toland

The Last Year of the German Army by James Lucas

The Day the War Ended by Martin Gilbert  

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Barbarossa

Hitler's Panzers East by RHS Stolfi

The Battle for Moscow by Albert Seaton

Barbarossa 1941 by David Glantz

Thunder on the Dnepr by Bryan Fugate and Lev Dvoresky

Stumbling Colossus by David Glantz

Operation Barbarossa by Bryan Fugate

German Strategy Against Russia 1939-1941 by Barry Leach

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Russo-Finnish War

The Soldier Under Three Flags by H.A. Gill III
Winter War/Finland (scenario Silent Death AAR), WW2/Germany, Viet Nam/US.

The Winter War  by Eloise Engle and Lauri Paananen  

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Stalingrad Campaign

Stalingrad: 1942-1943: The Infernal Cauldron by Stephen Walsh

199 Days the Battle for Stalingrad  by Edwin Palmer Hoyt

Enemy at the Gates: Movie Tie-In by William Craig (Don't forget Enemy at the Gates on DVD)

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor

The Battle for Stalingrad by Chuikov   

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Kursk Campaign

Kursk: Hitler's Gamble, 1943 by Walter S Dunn

The Battle for Kursk, 1943: The Soviet General Staff Study ed David M Glantz

Kursk 1943 (Osprey Campaign Series) by Mark Healy

The Battle of Kursk (Modern War Studies)  by David M Glantz and Jonathan House

Kursk 1943: A Statistical Analysis by Niklas Zetterling 

Tigers Are Burning by Martin Caidin

? The Battle of Kursk   ed Parotkin   

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Soviet Counterattacks 1942-1943

Last Victory in Russia: The SS-Panzerkorps and Manstein's Kharkov Counteroffensive - February-March 1943 by George Nipe

Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942 by David Glantz

From the Don to the Dnepr: A Study of Soviet Offensive Operations December 1942-August 1943  by David Glantz

Kharkov 1942: Anatomy of a Military Disaster by David Glantz  

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Soviet Attacks 1944-1945

Soviet Blitzkrieg: The Battle for White Russia, 1944 by Walter Dunn

Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany, 1945 by Christopher Duffy  

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*Personal Accounts

"Panzer Leader" by Heinz Guderian

Beyond Valor : World War II's Ranger and Airborne Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat, by Patrick O'Donnell 

"Lost Victories"  Field Marshal Erich von Manstein

Commanding the Red Army's Sherman Tanks: The World War II Memoirs of a Hero of the Soviet Union by Dmitry Loza

Into the Rising Sun  by Patrick O'Donnell

Infantry Aces: The German Soldier in Combat in WWII (Stackpole Military History Series) by Franz Kurowski

Panzer Aces: German Tank Commanders in World War II (Stackpole Military History Series) by Franz Kurowski

Panzer Aces II: Battle Stories of German Tank Commanders in World War II (Stackpole Military History Series) by Franz Kurowski

The Volga Rises in Europe   by Curzio Malaparte   

End of a Berlin Diary   by William L Shirer

With Our Backs to Berlin   by Tony Le Tissier 

My Three Years with Eisenhower   by Harry Butcher

Inside the Third Reich   by Albert Speer

Stuka Pilot  by Hans Rudel

To Hell and Back  by Audie Murphy

The Rommel Papers  ed BH Liddell-Hart

The German Generals Talk   ed BH Liddell-Hart

If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story  by George Wilson

The Goebbels Diaries   by Joseph Goebbels
I'm not sure this has anything to do with ASL... but I guess it's general history.

Panzer Battles  by FW von Mellenthin

Panzer Leader  by Heinz Guderian

Panzer Commander  by Hans von Luck

Company Commander  by Charles B MacDonald

Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949  by Siegfried Knappe

A Soldier's Story  by Omar Bradley  

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Biographies

Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life  D'Este

The Trail of the Fox   Irving

Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel   Fraser

Göring: A Biography   Irving

Himler  Frischauer

Patton: A Genius For War   D'Este

Goebbels  Reuth

The Devil's Adjutant   Reynolds  

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Unit Histories

"Soldiers of Destruction - The SS Death's Head Division 1933-1945" - Charles W Sydnor, Jr

Battling Buzzards: The Odyssey of the 517th Parachute RCT  Astor

Seven Days in January: With the 6th SS Mountain Division in Operation Nordwind  Zoepf

Normandy to the Ruhr: With the 116th Panzer Division  Guderian

SS-Das Reich: The History of the 2nd SS Division 1939-1945  Mattson

Das Reich: The Military Role of the 2nd SS Division   Lucas

The Rock of Anzio  Whitlock

The Black Sheep  Gamble

Impact: The Story of the Tenth Armored Division   Nichols

Steel Inferno: 1 SS Panzer Corps in Normandy   Reynolds

Men of Steel: 1 SS Panzer Corps, Ardennes and Eastern Front  Reynolds  

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Desert War

Alamein by Jon Latimer
This is a great book, giving a large amount of detail on both the battle itself as well as the upper echelon machinations and the attempts to get supplies to both armies  Latimer's writing style is fairly fluid and quite engaging.

Rommel's Funnies by Thomas Jentz
This is a slim (32 page) booklet from Darlington Press that describes several unusual vehicles that were used in North Africa.  The vehicles covered are the PzSflII (a 75mm L41 mounted in a turret on a weird halftrack), the 76.2mm FK (r) (a Russian 76.2mm AT gun mounted on a SdKfz in a big-assed armored box), the SiG 33 (a 150mm infantry gun mounted in an open-topped tank chassis), the Lorraine-Schlepper SPG (a 150mm howitzer on a French carrier chassis; typical SPG), and the Landwasserschlepper (a big amphibious tractor that was going to be used to deposit Italian Marines behind British lines during Operation Venezia in May 42...sounds like a fun "what-if" scenario).  This might be out of print, I see a pic of it on Darlington's site, but no price or description.

Tank Combat in North Africa: The Opening Rounds: Operations Sonnenblume, Brevity, Skorpion and Battleaxe February 1941-June 1941 by Thomas Jentz
Wow...incredible amounts of detail, great after -action reports, daily lists of operational strengths...what the desert campaign was really like.

"The Sidi Rezeg Battles 1941" by JAI Agar-Hamilton & L C F Turner

Desert War: The North African Campaign 1940-1943  Moorehead

Inside the Afrika Korps  Kriebel and US Army Intelligence

Rommel's Greatest Victory   Mitcham

Triumphant Fox  Mithcam

Kassarine Pass  Blumenson

Rommel's North African Campaign   Greene and Massignani

Kassarine  Whiting

The Bloody Road to Tunis   Rolf  2001  

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Pacific Theater

Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan by Robert Leckie

Guadalcanal - Richard B Frank

Japan at War - Haruko Taya Cook

The Struggle for Guadacanal - Samuel E Morison

Hero of Bataan - Duane Schultz

Guadalcanal, Starvation Island - Eric Hammel

Soldiers of the Sun - Meirion Harries

The Pacific War - John Costello

Guadalcanal Diary - Richard Tregaski

Helmet for my Pillow - Robert Leckie

Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa by Joseph H, Col Alexander and Edwin H Simmons

"Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II" - Robert Leckie

"Iwo Jima - Legacy of Valor" - Bill D Ross

They Fought Alone  - John Keats

Battle for Bataan  Mallonee

Defeat Into Victory  Slim

Guadalcanal  Frank

Miracle at Midway  Prange

Eagle Against the Sun   Spector

Closing the Circle  Hoyt

The Rape of Nanking   Chang

At Dawn We Slept  Prange

Pearl Harbor  Wels  

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Politics

Common Destiny  Knox

The Origins of the Second World War  Taylor

Germany, Hitler, and World War II   Weinberg

Hitler and Stalin  Bullock

The Nazi Dictatorship   Kershaw

How War Came  Watt

The Politics of War   Kolko

The Ordeal of Total War   Wright

1933  Metcalf

The Deadly Embrace  Read and Fisher

Mein Kampf  Hitler

The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945   Hoffmann

Treblinka  Steiner

Schindler's Legacy  Brecher

Nazism: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts v1  Noakes

Nazism: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts v2  Noakes

The Order of the Death's Head  Hoehne

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Air War

Axis Aircraft of World War II   Mondey

Target Berlin  Ethell and Price

World War II Airplanes, v 1   Angelucci and Matricardi

World War II Airplanes, v 2   Angelucci and Matricardi

JG26  Caldwell

A History of the Luftwaffe   Killen

Duel for the Sky  Shores

The Luftwaffe  Murray

The Fighting Me 109   Feist

Focke-Wulf Fw 190  Grinsell and Watanabe  

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Strategy and Tactics

The Roots of Blitzkrieg   Corum

Weapons and Fighting Tactics of the Waffen-SS   Hart and Hart

Battle Group!  Lucas

Strategy  Liddell-Hart

How Great Generals Win   Alexander

The Art of War  Sun-Tzu

On War  Clausewitz

Infantry Attacks  Rommel

Achtung-Panzer!  Guderian

The Blitzkrieg Story   Messenger  

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Armies at War

The Soviet Economy and the Red Army 1930-1945  Dunn

Hitler's Nemesis: The Red Army 1930-1945  Dunn

Fighting in Hell: The German Ordeal on the Eastern Front  ed Tsouras

American War Plans 1941-1945: The Test of Battle  Ross

Handbook on German Military Forces   US War Dept

Red Army Handbook  Zaloga and Ness

  The German Order of Battle: Infantry in World War II   Nafziger

  The German Order of Battle: Panzers and Artillery in World War II  Nafziger

The German Order of Battle: Waffen SS and Other Units in World War II  Nafziger

Citizen Soldiers  Ambrose

Hitler's Army: Evolution and Structure of German Forces 1933-1945  ed Command Magazine

The US Army Handbook 1939-1945   Forty

Warfare and the Third Reich   Chant

The US Army in World War II   Henry

There's a War to be Won   Perret

Hitler's Army  Bartov

The World Within War   Linderman

Hitler's Italian Allies   Knox

Closing With the Enemy   Doubler

Knights of the Black Cross   Perret

The German Army  Cooper

Why the Allies Won  Overy

The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions  Mansoor 1999

Raising Churchill's Army   French  2000

And We Shall Shock Them: The British Army in the Second World War  Fraser   1983

The Panzer Legions  Mitcham  2000

Fighting Power: German and US Army Performance, 1939-1945   van Creveld  1982

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Command

"Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command" by SLA Marshall

The Mask of Command   Keegan

Inside Hitler's High Command   Megargee  2001

The Face of the Third Reich   Fest

Hitler's Generals   Barnett

Leadership in War  Smyth  1974

Blitzkrieg to Defeat: Hitler's War Directives   Trevor-Roper  1965

Command Decisions  Dept of the Army, ed Greenfield   1959

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General Histories

History of the Second World War  Liddell-Hart

World War II in Photographs  Boyle

No End Save Victory   ed Cowley  2001

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich   Shirer

The Nightmare Years   Shirer

Hitler's War  Irving

A Pictorial History of the World War II Years   Jablonski

Great World War II Stories   various authors

History of World War II   Miller

The Russian Version of the Second World War   ed Lyons

The Second World War: West Point Military History Series v 1 Europe and the Mediterranean

The Second World War: West Point Military History Series v 2 Asia and the Pacific

The Second World War: West Point Military History Series Campaign Atlas

A World At Arms  Weinberg

The Second World War   Keegan

The Second World War v1: The Gathering Storm   Churchill

The Second World War v2: Their Finest Hour   Churchill

The Second World War v3: The Grand Alliance   Churchill

The Second World War v4: The Hinge of Fate   Churchill

The Second World War v5: Closing the Ring   Churchill

The Second World War v6: Triumph and Tragedy   Churchill

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Weapons Systems

Sturmgeschutz III and IV 1942-45 (New Vanguard Series) by Hilary Doyle & Thomas Jentz
As with most New Vanguard books this one is chock full of photos and illustrations.  As usual with Jentz you get tons of technical details (which I love, your mileage may vary), and a decent sized selection of after action reports.

Panzerkampfwagen III Medium Tank (New Vanguard Series) by Bryan Perrett
As with most New Vanguard books this one is chock full of photos and illustrations.  While not as filled with technical details as Jentz's books, this one has a large amount of combat descriptions.

Panzerkampfwagen IV Medium Tank (New Vanguard Series) by Bryan Perrett
As with most New Vanguard books this one is chock full of photos and illustrations.  While not as filled with technical details as Jentz's books, this one has a large amount of combat descriptions.

British and American Tanks of World War Two by Peter Chamberlain
A chance to see the vehicles behind the counters.

Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World War Two by Peter Chamberlain & Hilary Doyle
See the tank behind the counter art  Tons of vehicle listings, including captured vehicles in German service.

Germany's Tiger Tanks: Tiger I & II: Combat Tactics by Thomas Jentz
Awesome after-action reports, see what the real thing was like.

Panzer Truppen: The Complete Guide to the Creation & Combat Employment of Germany's Tank Force 1933-1942 by Thomas Jentz
Tons of after-action reports, many of which would make fascinating ASL scenarios.

Panzertruppen: The Complete Guide to the Creation & Combat Employment of Germany's Tank Force, 1943-1945 by Thomas Jentz
Even more after-action reports to set you salivating!

Germany's Panther Tank the Quest for Combat Supremacy by Thomas Jentz
Tons of technical data on the Panther and some useful after-action reports, including American tankers comments.

The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II   ed Bishop

Sturmgeschutz and its Varients   Spielberger

Panzerkampfwagen IV and its Varients   Spielberger

German Tanks of World War II   Forty

World War II Tanks  Forty

Allied Armor  Macksey

Russian Armor  Orgill

German Uniforms of the Third Reich   Davis

Aircraft Recognition Manual   US War Dept

Tanks of World War II   Retsayn

The Tank  Chant

Panzer: A Revolution in Warfare   Edwards

Tank  Macksey and Batchelor

Patton's Tank Drive   Green

Tiger Tanks  Green

Panzer Colors v1  Culver

Panzer Colors v2  Culver

Panzer Colors v3  Culver

Panzerwaffe at War v2   Michalec and Anderson

Panther in Action  Squadron/Signal

Sherman in Action  Squadron/Signal

T-34 in Action  Squadron/Signal

PzKw IV in Action  Squadron/Signal

German Medium Flak in Combat   Miller

Schutzenpanzerwagen   Scheibert

Japanese Tanks, Tactics, and Anti-Tank Weapons   McLean  1973

British and Commonwealth AFVs 1940-1946   Crow  1971  

***The following stuff is added from Vivman's extensive AFV library  Thanks Vivman! ***

Stuart by RP Hunnicutt
Hunnicutt is the quintessential historian of WWII era US armor.  Hard to find, but worth the effort.  Emphasis on tank technology & development, in this case the Stuart.

Pershing by RP Hunnicutt
Hunnicutt is the quintessential historian of WWII era US armor.  Hard to find, but worth the effort.  Emphasis on tank technology & development, in this case the Pershing heavy tank.

Sherman by RP Hunnicutt
Hunnicutt is the quintessential historian of WWII era US armor.  Hard to find, but worth the effort.  Emphasis on tank technology & development, in this case the old workhorse Sherman.

Half-Track by RP Hunnicutt
Hunnicutt is the quintessential historian of WWII era US armor.  Hard to find, but worth the effort.  Emphasis on tank technology & development.  This is about the M2 & M3 and all the variations thereof.

Firepower (History of US heavy tanks from WWI - 1950's) by RP Hunnicutt
Hunnicutt is the quintessential historian of WWII era US armor.  Hard to find, but worth the effort.  Emphasis on tank technology & development.

Germany's Tiger Tanks D.W. to Tiger I by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle
Primarily technical data, little or no combat info.

Germany's Tiger Tanks - Vk45 to Tiger II by Thomas Jentz & Hilary Doyle
Primarily technical data, little or no combat info.

Germany's Tiger Tanks: Tiger I & II: Combat Tactics by Thomas Jentz
Tons of After Action Reports, great combat descriptions.

Great Tank Scandal; British Armour in WW II, Part I by David Fletcher
Brit tank info from 1939 -42.  Fletcher is the curator of the Bovington Tank Museum.

The Universal Tank: British Armour in WW II Part II by David Fletcher
Brit tank info from 1942 -45.  Fletcher is the curator of the Bovington Tank Museum.

Death Traps by Belton Cooper
Indictment of WWII US armor, written by a ordnance officer responsible for armored recovery & repair.

Panzer III & Its Variants by Walter Spielberger
More technical info than combat descriptions.

Soviet Tanks & Combat Vehicles of WWII by Steven Zaloga & James Gransen
Comprehensive and well written source for Soviet AFV's during WWII.  Zaloga is probably the most readable of all the armor historians.

M4 Sherman by Michael Green
A more accessible history of the Sherman.  Not as extensive as Hunnicutt's book, but it doesn't cost $120 on Ebay either.

Tiger Tanks by Michael Green
Less technical and more accessible than Jentz.

Steel Fortress, The Russian T-28 Medium Tank by Mikhail Baryatinsky & Jim Kinnear
The ultimate resource for the T-28 with tons of photos.

U.S. Military Tracked Vehicles by Fred Crismon
Photos and brief descriptions of every US tracked vehicle including experimental and prototypes from pre-WWI to the present.

Škoda LT vz 35 by Vladimír Francev & Charles Kliment
Interesting monograph on the Czech LT vz 35.  Lots of illustrations Text is in Czech and English.

Panzerkampwagen Maus by Thomas Jentz
Cool monograph on the ultimate German wet-dream tank.

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Espionage

The Ultra Secret  Winterbotham

The Unseen War in Europe   Waller

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General Reference

War Maps  Goodenough

Up Front  Mauldin

Third Reich Almanac   Taylor and Shaw

Encyclopedia of the Third Reich   Snyder

The Battle for History   Keegan

The Meridian Encyclopedia of the Second World War   Weal, Pope, and Taylor

Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia v 1-3

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Other Military History

Dreadnought  Maksey

1915  MacDonald

The German High Command at War: Hindenburg and Ludendorff Conduct World War I  Asprey

The Price of Admiralty   Keegan

Claws of the Bear: A History of Soviet Armed Forces 1917 to the Present  Moynahan

Men Against Fire  Marshall

The Evolution of Weapons and Warfare   Dupuy

A History of Warfare   Keegan

The Origins of a Tragedy   Williamson

The Guns of August  Tuchman

The Zimmerman Telegram   Tuchman

A Short History of World War I   Stokesbury

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Post WWII Battles & Campaigns

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Post WWII Weapon Systems

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AFV G2 Magazine (more to be added as they are available)

Vol 3 Number 6
British Armored Car Operations During Crusader, Defense of Sicily by the 15 PzGrd Div (Pt 2)

Vol 3 Number 7
British Armor in Defense of Crete (Pt 1), Defense of Sicily by the 15 PzGrd Div (Pt 3)

Vol 3 Number 8
British Armor in Defense of Crete (Pt 2), Armor Penetration article (Pt 1), Defense of Sicily by the 15 PzGrd Div (Pt 4)

Vol 3 Number 9
British Armor in Defense of Crete (Pt 3), Armor Penetration article (Pt 2), SU-76 article

Vol 3 Number 11
Anzio article (Pt 1), German 88mm Penetration article

Vol 4 Number 9
Armored Train article 

Vol 4 Number 12
Article on Guderian's armor tactics (Pt 1)

Vol 5 Number 1
German late-war armored cars (Pt 1), German disguised Panthers

Vol 5 Number 2
Rolls Royce AC's in combat (Pt 2), Article on Guderian's armor tactics (Pt 2)

Vol 5 Number 3
Article on Guderian's armor tactics (Pt 3), PzKfW I article

Vol 5 Number 4
Steam Powered tanks, Mechanization of the US Army 1925-40

Vol 5 Number 5
Finland's armor museum

Vol 5 Number 6
Indirect fire techniques by tanks in WWII

Vol 5 Number 7
German late-war armored cars (Pt 2)

Vol 5 Number 8
Short article on German Raupenschlepper Ost (tracked utility vehicle)

Vol 5 Number 9
Japanese Type 1 SPG Ho-Ni 

Vol 5 Number 10
PzKfW IID and variants article

Vol 5 Number 11
History of the Irish Cavalry Corps

Vol 5 Number 12
Polish tankette article, Swiss panzers 1940, German Panther Story (Pt 1)

Vol 6 Number 1
Sixth Royal Tank Regiment 1937-41, German Panther Story (Pt 2)

Vol 6 Number 2
Organization and Disposition of Poland's Armored Force 1939 (by Zaloga), DD Tanks at Normandy, Luchs article

Vol 6 Number 3
German Panther Story (Pt 3), History of 27th Panzer Div

Vol 6 Number 4
Desert Warfare techniques (by Patton)(Pt 1), Hungarian armor in WWII

Vol 6 Number 5
Late war uses of the German MG151, Desert Warfare techniques (by Patton)(Pt 2), German Panther Story (Pt 4)

Vol 6 Number 6
Royal Marine Tanks at Normandy, Desert Warfare techniques (by Patton)(Pt 3), Winter Operations of German Armor (Pt 1)

Vol 6 Number 7
Dutch Armor Before 1940, Winter Operations of German Armor (Pt 2)

Vol 6 Number 8
Overview of British Tanks in the '30's

Vol 6 Number 9
Operations of the 1st US Armored Div in Tunisia, Italian M11/39 article

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