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Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2

You know about Stalingrad, the siege of Leningrad, maybe Kursk. But how well do you know the history of the ”Russian front” of the Second World War? Join this detailed description of the largest part of WW2 in Europe, the titanic clash between tyrants Hitler and Stalin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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52:27

Agent Zo—A conversation with Clare Mulley: Episode 62

Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2 ·

2024/12/02

Author Clare Mulley and I discuss her latest book, the story of one of the Allies' most valuable intelligence agents, Elzbieta Zawacka, known as Agent Zo. Visit Clare Mulley's website: https://claremulley.com/ Clare Mulley's books: The Woman Who Saved the Children The Spy Who Loved The Women Who Flew for Hitler Agent Zo: The Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter Map 1: Molotov and Ribbentrop's division of eastern Europe Map 2: German invasion of Poland, 1 September

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35:56

The Battle of Kyiv, 1943: Episode 61

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2024/11/18

After crossing the Dnipro at Bukrin and getting bogged down by the panzers, the Red Army shifts focus northward to take the Ukrainian capital. Map 1: The Battle of Kyiv, 1943 Source: Warfare History Network.com Map 2: German war map of the Battle of Kyiv, 1943 Note the crossing at Ljutesch, German spelling of Lyutizh (Ukrainian) or Liutezh (Russian). Source: Alchetron, the Free Social Encyclopedia Photo 1: Crossing the Dnipro Soviet sappers building a raft to cross the Dnipro. The sign reads,

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08:24

In honour of Remembrance Day 2024: A special Beyond...

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2024/11/10

In honour of Remembrance Day, 11 November 2024, this is a special episode available to all. A reading from Army of Worn Soles: Volume 1 of The Eastern Front Trilogy. Available exclusively on Amazon.

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31:50

Crossing the Dnipro: Episode 60

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2024/11/04

It's hard to believe we've reached the 60th episode! This is a big one: the Red Army reaches, and crosses the German East Wall along the Dnipro River in Ukraine. At a cost, of course. Let me know what you think. Crossing the Dnipro Map 2: The Bukrin Bend Sources: Prit Buttar, Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943. Osford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2020. Evan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Anthony

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38:34

The experience of occupation: Ukraine in the 1940s...

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2024/10/21

Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk of the Royal Military College of Canada and University of Toronto returns to describe the reality for eastern European people under occupation during the Second World, and draws the line from then to today.Latest book: Enemy Archives: Soviet Counterinsurgency Operations and the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement – Selections from the Secret Police Archives Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. Available from Amazon and McGill-Queen's University Press

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37:26

Ukraine occupied by nazis and communists: Episode...

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2024/10/14

Professor of political geography at the Royal Military College of Canada and Senior Research Fellow of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto, shares his knowledge and insight into the experience of Ukraine under occupation by nazi and Soviet forces during the Second World War. Map: Ukrainian lands during World War II Source: Ukraine: A Historical Atlas, by Paul Robert Magosci and Geoffrey Matthews Image 1: Dr. Luciuk's latest publication, Enemy Archives. With Volodymyr

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40:59

The second battle of Smolensk, 1943: Episode 57

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2024/09/30

Smolensk has a war history that is far more significant than its size would suggest. In September 1943, it was a key to Soviet Red Army strategy, and for the German defence.The best English-language podcast for staying up to date on the war in Ukraine is Ukraine: The Latest from the Daily Telegraph. Its creator and executive producer was David Knowles, who passed away unexpectedly in September. My condolences and sympathies to Mr. Knowles' family, friends, co-workers and colleagues. Map 1: Battle

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30:00

Taking half of Ukraine: Episode 56

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2024/09/02

After the Battle of Kursk, Stalin and the Stavka set their sights on recapturing Smolensk, and farther south, the wealth of the Donbas and eastern Ukraine.Map 1: The Chernihiv-Poltava Offensive Map 2: The Red Army perspective I guess you have to be a Red Army officer to understand this one. Photos: Ivan Konev, Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1945 General Nikolai Vatutin, Commander of the Voronezh Front, 1943 Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the USSR.

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40:20

The ghosts of three Russian generals: Operations...

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2024/08/19

When Germany attacked Kursk in 1943, they found an enemy that had prepared a complex strategy, and assembled immense forces poised to act as soon as the German attacks stalled. This strategy began with three operations named for three Russian generals from history: Kutuzov, Rumyantsev, and Suvorov — the practice for Operation Bagration.Map 1: Operation Kutuzov and revenge for Kursk Map 2: Operation Rumyantsev and the Fourth Battle of Kursk Map 3: Operation Suvorov, the liberation of

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31:06

Prokhorovka: the impaling — Episode 54

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2024/08/05

This was armoured warfare at its most brutal, with tanks slugging it out at point-blank range. The tanks were as close as 10–15m. Once hit, many of the crews had little chance of bailing out and were splattered all over the insides of their tanks. Those who did try to escape their blazing tanks were mown down and their lifeless bodies left obscenely charred and shrivelled.Map 1: The Kursk Salient Map 2: The battle of Kursk — the southern sector Map 3: The northern sector Map 4: Another look at

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38:06

The Battle of Kursk, Part 3: Episode 53

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2024/07/22

The iconic battle on the Kursk salient in July 1943 builds into the greatest confrontation between armoured forces ever — and a four-part series on Beyond Barbarossa.Map 1: The Kursk salient, 5 to 11 July 1943 Map 2: The northern sector Source: OnWar.com Map 3: The southern sector Sources: Ian Baxter, Kursk 1943: Last German Offensive in the East. Haverstown, PA, USA: Casemate Publishers (US), 2019. Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012. Robin

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32:06

Zitadelle—the Battle of Kursk, part 2: Episode 52

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2024/07/08

What I thought would be a single episode has turned into a series. Here is Part 2 of the biggest tank battle in history — or at least, of the Second World War.Map 1: The Eastern Front, 1943-44 Map 2: Battle of Kursk Map 3: Another map of the Battle of Kursk Image 1: The Tiger heavy tank Image 2: The Panther tank Image 3: The Ferdinand or "Elefant" self-propelled gun Restored Elefant at the United States Army Ordnance Training and Heritage Center. Source: Wikipedia.

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45:54

Summer, 1943 plans: Season 3 opener, Episode 51

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2024/06/22

Three seasons! 51 episodes! This season begins with a catch-up on the Eastern Front, and the planning that led to the biggest battle in the history of warfare: Operation Zitadelle and the Battle of Kursk. Map: The Kursk salient, spring 1943 Source: Wikipedia Production and loss tables Table 1: Comparative armaments production, January 1941 – December 1942 1941 1942 Germany USSR Germany USSR Rifles 1,359.000 2,421,000 1,370,000 4,049,000 Machine

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40:57

Looking back, taking stock: Episode 50

Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2 ·

2024/05/21

For this special episode, a special treat for listeners: new theme music by composer Nicolas Bury. At the mid-point of the fighting on the Eastern Front of World War II, it's a good time to take a look back at what's happened in the USSR and around the world. Map 1: Operation Barbarossa to Operation Typhoon Map 2: Operation Blue

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33:55

Bombing Hitler's Hometown: A conversation with author...

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2024/05/06

On 25 April 1945, 700 bombers and fighters of the U.S. 15th Air Force raided Linz, Germany, the town where Adolf Hitler grew up. Although neither the air crews nor the people of Linz could know it, it would be the last major Allied air raid of the Second World War. And one of the costliest in terms of U.S. casualties. Mike Croissant's uncle Ellsworth Croissant was one of the bombardiers on that air raid. That connection led the retired CIA analyst to write a book about it: Bombing Hitler's

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27:10

Bombing Hitler's Hometown, part 2: Episode 49

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2024/04/08

Author Mike Croissant describes the family connection that inspired his research into the last mass bombing raid of the Second World War in Europe.His book, Bombing HItler's Hometown: The Untold Story of the Last Mass Bomber Raid of World War II in Europe, was published in March. It's available in better bookstores and through online e-tailers through Kensington Publishing.

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38:00

Meetings and agreements: Episode 47

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2024/04/08

Mussolini was not happy about being in the Axis by 1943. And Stalin refused to attend the Casablanca Conference with Churchill and Roosevelt. Meetings of the summit and other senior leaders of the Axis and Allied powers through the war show the evolution of each side's war aims between 1939 and 1945.Map: The Kursk salient, spring 1943 Image 1: Roosevelt and Churchill aboard the HMS Prince of Wales at the Argentia Conference, August 1941. Seated: President Franklin D. Roosevelt (left) and

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37:19

Holocaust and Uprising: Episode 46

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2024/03/25

In April 1943, Jewish people forced into the grossly overcrowded ghetto in Warsaw rose up against the nazis, killing hundreds of SS soldiers. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising failed, but its memory lives on. SS members force Jewish people out of shelters for deportation to death camps, spring, 1943. Source: Wikimedia Commons. A map of the Warsaw Ghetto, the area nazi oppressors forced Jewish people to remain in. SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop (center), commanded of the SS brigade that destroyed

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36:08

The Third Battle of Kharkiv: Episode 45

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2024/03/11

After their stunning, bloody defeat at Stalingrad, the Germans withdrew west to the Donets River in Ukraine, and the Red Army swept ahead as much as 800 km. But the Germans were still a potent force, and in March 1943, were ready to retake Kharkiv. Map 1: The counter-attack in the Donbas Map 2: The advances on Kharkiv Map 3: Withdrawal from the Rzhev salient Maps 4 and 5: The front in March 1943

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26:59

Movement returns to the Eastern Front: Episode 44

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2024/02/26

After the 6th Army's surrender at Stalingrad, rapid, far-ranging mobility returns to the war on the Eastern Front, as German and Soviet forces advance and retreat hundreds of kilometres.Map 1: The Kuban Bridgehead Map 2: Operation Star Map 3: Von Manstein's counter-offensive A Tiger tank near Kharkiv, 1943 Source: Pinterest.

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