{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"The Third Crushing Blow: Odesa and Crimea offensives","description":"In 1944, the Red Army delivers its third crushing blow on the Axis forces in eastern Europe: two major offensives to recapture the rest of Ukraine, and the Crimean peninsula.\n\nMap 1: Northern Black Sea coast and southern Ukraine\n\nThe range where the two mighty blows were delivered. Ploesti, Romania is to the far left of the map, just north of Bucharest.\n\n\n\nMap 2:\n\n\n\nMap by Scott Bury\n\n\n\nMap 3: The Red Army’s Crimean offensive, 1944\n\n\n\nImage 1: Issa Pliyev, Commander, Cavalry-Mechanized Group\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Red Army, 4th Guards Cavalry Corps advancing across southern Ukraine, 1944\n\n\n\nMiklós Horthy, Regent of Hungary, with Adolf Hitler in Budapest, 1938\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Red Army marches into “liberated” Odesa, 1944\n\n\n\nNote the women soldiers in the ranks.\n\nSources:\n\nPrit Buttar, The Reckoning: The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2020.\n\nEvan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.\n\nAnthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, The History Press, 2017.\n\nWikipedia: The Crimean Offensive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_offensive\n\n— The Odesa Offensive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odessa_Offensive\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/43762369/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}