{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Crushing Blows: Episode 66","description":"The first two of ten \"crushing blows\" against the German invaders of the USSR in 1944: Zhitomyr and Leningrad.\nMap 1: The Zhitomyr-Berdichiv Offensive\n\n\n\nMap 2: Cherkassy or Kherson Pocket\n\nMap 3: Leningrad, 1941–1943\n\nMap 4: Leningrad lifeline\n\n\n\nMap 5: Operation Iskra\n\n\n\nMap 6: Operation Polar Star\n\n\n\nMap 7: Liberation of Leningrad, push to Panther Line\n\n\n\nSources\nAntony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.\n\nEvan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.\n\nAnna Reid, Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege, 1941–44. Toronto: Allen Lane Canada, 2011.\n\nAnthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin's War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017.\n\nPrit Buttar, Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2019.\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/43762401/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}