The Eastern Front Day by Day, 1941-45: A Photographic ... (ISBN 1597970107)

Engaging and recommended:
On June 22, 1941, preceded by a massive artillery and aerial bombardment along the entire 2,000-mile border, three million German troops and their allies, along with 3,330 tanks, smashed into the Soviet Union in a military campaign that Adolph Hitler thought would be over in just four months. Four years later, thirty-five million Soviets and five million Germans had been killed in a campaign left the western USSR, Eastern Europe, and German itself, with a gutted landscape, and millions of civilians homeless. "The Eastern Front Day By Day, 1941-45" is a photographic chronology that includes key battles on land, at sea, and in the air, including the great encirclement engagements of 1941 at Minsk, Smolensk, Kieve, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kursk, and Operation Bagration. Featuring sidebars on all the principle commanders who led the German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front, as well as the events that occurred on both sides and influenced the war (including the SS and Einsatzgruppen murder squads), the technological advances in planes, tanks, rocket launchers, and more, "The Eastern Front" is a succinct, profusely illustrated, month-by-month historical overview that is as informed and informative, as it is engaging and recommended for personal, academic, and community library Military History reference collections in general, and World War II Eastern Front supplemental reading lists in particular.

well above average:
Good book, the quality of the text and research is far above the average "WW2 in pictures" type.

The Eastern Front Day by Day, 1941-45. A Photographic Chronology:
The book "The Eastern Front Day by Day, 1941-45. A Photographic Chronology", by Steve Crawford. This is a nice book, with a lot of pictures and maps in its 192 pages. I was hoping for a little more detail in the written part of the chronology then it had, but through out the book you will find special inserts with like "Decisive Moment's, Key Personalities, and Key Weapons", that help fill in the blanks. This book is worth having in your collection of books on World War II.