{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"The second battle of Smolensk, 1943: Episode 57","description":"Smolensk has a war history that is far more significant than its size would suggest. In September 1943, it was a key to Soviet Red Army strategy, and for the German defence.\n\nThe best English-language podcast for staying up to date on the war in Ukraine is Ukraine: The Latest (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/02/russia-ukraine-war-listen-daily-podcast/)  from the Daily Telegraph. Its creator and executive producer was David Knowles, who passed away unexpectedly in September.\n\nMy condolences and sympathies to Mr. Knowles' family, friends, co-workers and colleagues.\n\nMap 1: Battle of Smolensk, 1943\n\n\n\nMap 2: Operation Suvorov\n\nMap 2: Smolensk region\n\nThis gives you an idea of where the smaller towns are in relation to Smolensk.\n\nPhoto 1: Gen. Yeremenko (right) with Nikita Khrushchev (left) during the Battle of Stalingrad.\n\n Photo 2: Yeremenko in about 1970\n\n\n\nPhoto 3: Gen. Vasily Sokolovsky in 1946\n\n\n\nSources:\n\nAntony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.\n\nRobert Forczyk, Smolensk 1943: The Red Army's Relentless Advance. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2019.\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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smolensk_operation.\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/43762453/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}