Crushing Blows: Episode 66

Crushing Blows: Episode 66

Update: 2025-01-27
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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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Crushing Blows: Episode 66

Crushing Blows: Episode 66

Scott Bury