Slitherine

Today we posted the first of new series called "One Book On..."

The first target was Drive on Moscow, and Jeff Dougherty suggested The Retreat: Hitler's First Defeat. Here's the blog post: http://www.shenandoah-studio.com/book-ondrive-moscow/

What other great books on the subject would you recommend?

A few more that I thought were good:

Operation Typhoon, by David Stahel; covers October with a followup volume planned on the November portion of the campaign

Moscow, 1941: Hitler's First Defeat, by Robert Forczyk; Osprey Books; a typical good Osprey overview

The Defense of Moscow, 1941: The Northern Flank, by Jack Radey and Charles Sharp; dry, but detailed, and with a fascinating appendix of the actual German directives, orders and reports pertaining to the campaign

When Titans Clashed, by David Glantz and Jonathan House; overview of the entire war on the Eastern Front

For a concise and engaging overview of the Eastern Front I would recommend "Hitler's War on Russia" by Charles D. Winchester, published by Osprey in the "General Military" collection.
On a related note, I found some places on the DoM map like Pogar, Pochep and Trubchevsk to sound quite familiar after reading the second volume of David Glantz's "Barbarossa Derailed" published by Helion. These towns were the springboard for Heinz Guderian's Panzer Group dash to the South to encircle Kiev.
Yelnia was another heavily contested place, with the German Army being forced to retreat from a salient by Zhukov's Reserve Front.
David Glantz shows that the battles around Smolensk in Autumn of 1941 effectively bled the German Army Group Center white before the offensive to Moscow. Word of advice about the hardcover edition of "Barbarossa Derailed": be prepared for some heavy lifting and keep a notebook within reach. I found myself using tracing paper to follow more easily the advance of the German "ghost divisions".