{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69d4411af44b357ce92f379e/69d4413307bc2cbfc7e1d358?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Crushing Blows: Episode 66","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/69d4411af44b357ce92f379e/c44ed9fac2fed62c665efbd6e7314b60.png?height=200","description":"The first two of ten \"crushing blows\" against the German invaders of the USSR in 1944: Zhitomyr and Leningrad.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Map 1: The Zhitomyr-Berdichiv Offensive</p>\n<p>  </p>\n<p>Map 2: Cherkassy or Kherson Pocket    </p>\n<p>Map 3: Leningrad, 1941–1943</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Map 4: Leningrad lifeline </p>\n<p>  </p>\n<p>Map 5: Operation Iskra</p>\n<p>  </p>\n<p>Map 6: Operation Polar Star</p>\n<p>  </p>\n<p>Map 7: Liberation of Leningrad, push to Panther Line</p>\n<p> </p>\nSources\n<p>Antony Beevor, <em>The Second World War</em>. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012. </p>\n<p>Evan Mawdsley, <em>Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945.</em> London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.</p>\n<p>Anna Reid, <em>Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege, 1941–44</em>. Toronto: Allen Lane Canada, 2011.</p>\n<p>Anthony Tucker-Jones, <em>Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin's War 1941–1945</em>. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017.</p>\n<p>Prit Buttar, <em>Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine</em>, 1943. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2019.</p>","author_name":"Scott Bury"}