{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"The Battle of Belgrade—Episode 89","description":"There was a lot of action on the Eastern Front in the autumn of 1944. In late September, the Red Army and its new allies enter Yugoslavia and connect with communist Partisans led by a man called Tito. The results will echo across the decades.\n\nMap 1: The Balkan military theatre, September 1944–January 1945\n\nMap 2: The Bulgarian incursion\n\nMap 3: The Battle of Belgrade\n\nPhotos\n\n\nThe Lockheed P-38 Lightning and the Focke-Wulf fw189\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Yakovlev Yak-9 in flight\n\n\n\nThe Yakovlev Yak-9 in the Russian military museum\n\n\n\nJosip Broz, a.k.a. Tito, far right, with his staff.\n\nSources\nAntony Beevor, The Second World War. New York, NY, USA: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.\n\nEvan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.\n\nGiles Milton, The Stalin Affair: The impossible alliance that won the war. New York, NY, USA: Henry Holt and Company, 2022.\n\nAnthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War, 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017.\n\nMorse code by Thane Brown\n\nMusic composed and recorded by Nicolas Bury\n\n Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.\n\nHosted on Ausha. See https://ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.","author_name":"Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5173732-beyond-barbarossa-the-eastern-front-of-world-war-2","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43762306/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}