Kershaw, Hitler, II. 430-438; Glantz, Barbarossa, 84-96 (the Smolensk counteroffensive).

Humburg, Das Gesicht, 170-171; Hürter, Hitlers Heerführer, 302-310; Jehuda L. Wallach, The Dogma of the Battle of Annihilation: The Theories of Clausewitz and Schieffen and their Impact on the German Conduct of Two World Wars (Wfestport, Conn., 1980), 265-281.