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UnholyMudcrab posted...

David Glantz has written extensively about the Eastern Front, with information taken from the Soviet archives. It does a lot to challenge and dispel the myths that were spread by the Germans during and after the war.

This is also the reason why Parshall and Tully's Shattered Sword is probably my favorite work of military history, because they went directly to the Japanese war histories and found that a good deal of the stuff we knew about the Battle of Midway was bunk based on the accounts of someone who was notorious for, shall we say, creatively interpreting his experiences. They found that western understanding of Midway had basically been stuck in place for 50 years because no one had bothered to consult the Japanese, and they turned the whole thing on its head.

Yeah, I've read quite a few of David Glantz books. I was mostly just speaking in general terms for people who might not have realized why the discrepancy exists.

I'm glad someone else here has read Shattered Sword, it's wild how much of historians views on Midway were warped till that book came out.

It's more modern than the the stuff we are talking about here but if you haven't read Zinky Boys by Svetlana Alexievich on the Soviet-Afghan war I'd highly recommend it though it's what you might call a bit fucking grim.