Reading lists supplied by Dan Carlin from the popular Hardcore History podcast.

Reading lists supplied by Dan Carlin from the popular Hardcore History podcast.

Reading lists supplied by Dan Carlin from the popular Hardcore History podcast.

Reading lists supplied by Dan Carlin from the popular Hardcore History podcast.

Reading David Stahel's recent (2019) book "Retreat from Moscow" about the 1941-42 Eastern Front winter campaign.The usual stunning facts. On Dec 6th 1941 temps at Army Group Center's location reach -50F. Coldest I ever experienced was -22F. At -22 everything totally froze up.

Yes, his book had things in it that others left out. Great stuff!

That looks great (at least based on the concept and the book cover!). Can’t wait till it’s released.

Storm of Steel may be 1 of the best books from the soldier perspective ever written (though Judger’s far from normal!)

That’s a great book (and he was a hell of an interesting human being).

BYW: This Tooze book is a magnificent deep dive into the Nazi economic situation and ideas (if you like that stuff,or if you've read a ton of WW2 stuff but neglected this aspect of the conflict). Every WW2 buff should try to get through it. Tooze is fantastic.

It’s a huge hardcover book though (a great anchor in my library).

Yeah, yeah. I have the book. Wish he’d written it before I did that show. I could have used the material he presented.

He's a bit like me (in that he's not a historian) but I think he did a great job with that book. Well worth reading.

It’s a GREAT book. It’s worth picking up for sure. It’s truly horrifying though, so be forewarned.

The first chapter in Donovan Webster’s book “Aftermath” deals with this shell cleanup effort better than anyone I’ve read.