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Crushing Blows: Episode 66
The first two of ten "crushing blows" against the German invaders of the USSR in 1944: Zhitomyr and Leningrad.
Map 1: The Zhitomyr-Berdichiv Offensive
Map 2: Cherkassy or Kherson Pocket
Map 3: Leningrad, 1941–1943
Map 4: Leningrad lifeline
Map 5: Operation Iskra
Map 6: Operation Polar Star
Map 7: Liberation of Leningrad, push to Panther Line
Sources
Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
Evan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Anna Reid, Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege, 1941–44. Toronto: Allen Lane Canada, 2011.
Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin's War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017.
Prit Buttar, Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2019.
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The first two of ten "crushing blows" against the German invaders of the USSR in 1944: Zhitomyr and Leningrad.
Map 1: The Zhitomyr-Berdichiv Offensive
Map 2: Cherkassy or Kherson Pocket
Map 3: Leningrad, 1941–1943
Map 4: Leningrad lifeline
Map 5: Operation Iskra
Map 6: Operation Polar Star
Map 7: Liberation of Leningrad, push to Panther Line
Sources
Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
Evan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Anna Reid, Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege, 1941–44. Toronto: Allen Lane Canada, 2011.
Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin's War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017.
Prit Buttar, Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2019.
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