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Seems like it's too long, so I'll split it up in two here:
General accounts:
When Titans Clashed
Russia at War
Thunder in the East
Absolute War
Hitler's War in the East
The Road to Stalingrad
The Road to Berlin
A Writer at War
THE ROLE OF THE SOVIET UNION IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR: A Re-examination
Why Stalin's Soldiers Fought: The Red Army's Military Effectiveness in World War II
If you're interested in memoirs I'd suggest:
Blood on the Shores
Over the Abyss
Sniper on the Eastern Front
GUNS AGAINST THE REICH: Memoirs of an Artillery Officer on the Eastern Front
PANZER DESTROYER: Memoirs of a Red Army Tank Commander
Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front, 1942-1945
Red Road From Stalingrad: Recollections Of A Soviet Infantryman
Red Star Against the Swastika: The Story of a Soviet Pilot over the Eastern Front
Penalty Strike: The Memoirs of a Red Army Penal Company Commander, 1943-45
BUT NOT FOR THE FUEHRER
Through Hell for Hitler
A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War : Russia, 1941-1944
Barbarossa:
War Without Garlands: Barbarossa 1941/42
BARBAROSSA DERAILED: THE BATTLE FOR SMOLENSK 10 JULY-10 SEPTEMBER 1941 VOLUME 1: The German Advance, The Encirclement Battle, and the First and Second Soviet Counteroffensives, 10 July-24 August 1941
Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East
Kiev 1941
Operation Typhoon: Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941
THE VIAZ'MA CATASTROPHE, 1941: The Red Army's Disastrous Stand against Operation Typhoon
THE DEFENSE OF MOSCOW 1941: The Northern Flank
What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa
War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941
Germany and the Second World War: Volume IV: The Attack on the Soviet Union
Well for starters, Germans used to kill their own that tried to desert (check out Red Road from Stalingrad which has some accounts for that). Russians did the same, even in situations where supplies were limited (they would literally tell you to follow the guy in front of you, and when he died, to pick up his gun and fight. If you did not, and tried to leave, you were shot and killed. This was a carried over practice of Roman ages and even earlier). There were also reports of killing wounded who were beyond help, "wouldn't make it", or jeopardized missions (very similar to the game mechanic).
I looked around for a little bit trying to dig up articles, but I couldn't find particular ones that I have seen on the History Channel. My father is a huge war buff and I spent most of my childhood propped up on the couch with him watching war films and documentaries. I do recall there being several missions where people were sacrificed by their own unit/military to protect information from getting into enemy hands. I suppose in that essence, that would be like preventing the enemy from getting a medal.
I'll see if I can't find some of those documentaries from the history channel, and I'll shoot my father a phone call and see if he recalls a few in particular.