"Red October" reading material?

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Looking for suggestions for reading material regarding the fighting in the Red October factory.
Thanks in advance!
 

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Combined Arms Research Library is a treasure trove.
it is, but one must recall that much there on the War in the East is A: dated and largely outperformed in more modern works and B: quite biased towards the German point of view, being either co-authored or created from German interviews and primary source documents alone.

What is needed are those in-depth analyses written after the fall of the Soviet Union and more important,y after the 1996 declassifications of old Soviet records on the war by the FSB.

Although dry reading to say the last, David Glantz' trilogy is still likely to take top spot as a pure analysis of the fighting around Red October Factory complexes.

YMMV of course.
KRL, Jon H
 

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A few others that might help:

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a fair amount of both primary source interviews, extensive documentation in Glantz, and secondary analysis overall. Sadly, the RO factory does not seem to have received the same attention to detail that the DTW and RB factories have by historians. (At least, not as far as I can discern).
 

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YMMV of course.
You might be a bit hard on CARL. After all, there are plenty of publications there dated from the '90s into this century, including that video. These days each paper probably deserves to be evaluated individually for its reliance on material from a greater range of sources.

My "treasure trove" comment was intended more broadly that Stalingrad. It's always worth a look there when researching a conflict.
 
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