What literature to choose for studying WINAPI?

Question

C++ / C#

Good day I began to climb on MSDN - PVOID, HANDLE ,
PWSTR and other terrible type names frightened me and therefore I decided to resort to the good old books .
this is arranged in Windows - I will be grateful if you advise

Answer 1

In general, in the books of Mark Russinovich, all this is described quite coolly. But I'm afraid that the level there is not for quite beginners.

Answer 2

Let's say this is
https://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/20285651/

Answer 3

They went crazy to suggest Russinovich. The book is cool, but definitely not the first to get acquainted with the OS. I advise Richter , this is also a classic

Answer 4

Some more classics.
https://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/2575245/
Quite intelligibly written.

Answer 5

PVOID - void*
PWSTR - wchar_t *
HANDLE - just an integer, usually you don't need to know the details - it's an object identifier (handle).
And take Rusinovich on the advice of 15432