Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2

By: Scott Bury
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  • 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.
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Episodes
  • Crushing Blows: Episode 66

    Crushing Blows: Episode 66
    Jan 27 2025
    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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    31 mins
  • The Devils' Alliance: A conversation with author Roger Moorhouse, part 2—Episode 65

    The Devils' Alliance: A conversation with author Roger Moorhouse, part 2—Episode 65
    Jan 13 2025

    What was the USSR doing between September 1939 and June 1941? It was allied with nazi Germany, of course. Historian Roger Moorhouse, author of books including The Devils' Alliance, describes the lasting impact of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, and the strategic factors that ended it.

    Roger Moorhouse

    The Devils' Alliance

    Roger Moorhouse's books: https://www.rogermoorhouse.com/books

    Map: The division of eastern Europe according to the secret protocols of the pact

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    43 mins
  • The Devils' Alliance: A conversation with author Roger Moorhouse, part 1—Episode 64

    The Devils' Alliance: A conversation with author Roger Moorhouse, part 1—Episode 64
    Jan 6 2025

    The nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 gave Hitler and the nazis the green light to invade Poland and start World War 2. Two weeks later, Stalin's Red Army joined the nazis in dismembering Poland.

    Historian and author Roger Moorhouse has dived deep into this notorious but poorly understood alignment in The Devils' Alliance: Hitler's Pact with Staline, 1939–1941. He joins the podcast in a two-part discussion of the importance of the agreement between the 20th century's two bloodiest tyrannies.

    Roger Moorhouse

    The Devils' Alliance

    Roger Moorhouse's books: https://www.rogermoorhouse.com/books

    The famous cartoon by David Low

    Hitler: "The scum of the earth, I believe?"

    Stalin: "The bloody assassin of the workers, I presume?"

    Map: The division of eastern Europe according to the secret protocols of the pact

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    38 mins

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