East front WW2 books

[Zemke]

I think the real key is look at what an author used as sources. Real historians use primary source documents as sources. I have read most works on the eastern front, and Paul Carell is not my first choice for information, while David Glantz may be dry, his works are among the best researched. I have read Clark and Statton among others as well. Bottom-line, look at the biography of the work, see where they got their information, it should be primary source documents. Author's opinion's are, well like everyone's else's, they just wrote it in a book, so look where they got their information. I often look at end notes and see where the information came from, in my youth I did not.....this topic is huge, and worthy of a book itself... were the Germans really better, was Hitler an idiot and if he had only listened to his generals.....and on and on it goes.