Here are some texts I have found helpful in my research.
Barbarossa, by Alan Clark. A good, albeit lengthy, overview of the Eastern Front battles. Reads like a textbook. Thorough, but l.o.n.g.
Graves without Crosses, by Arved Viirlaid. A novel based on true events following the reoccupation of Estonia by Soviet forces in 1944. The story follows a soldier who is marked for death by Soviet policy, but nonetheless returns to Estonia to search for family. Family legend indicates my own grandfather, the star of my book, was interviewed by Mr. Viirlaid as the author was researching his book.
Old Estonia: The People and Culture, by Gustav Rank. Wonderful “big picture” history of Estonia’s past and its nature-centered philosophies.
Sentence: Siberia, by Ann Lehtmets. Memoirs of an Estonian woman who lived near my grandfather’s village and was deported to Siberia by the Soviets in 1941.
War in the Woods, by Mart Laar. Former PM of Estonia gives detailed account of the resistance movement known as the Forest Brethren.
