{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Operation Mars: Beyond Barbarossa, episode 39","description":"As three Red Army Fronts move on the German flanks west and south of Stalingrad, two more attack the Rzhev-Vyazma salient west of Moscow. Is it a diversion, or is Mars the twin of Uranus?\n\nMap 1: The Rzhev-Vyazma salient\n\nMap 2: Operation Mars\n\n\n\nHistorical images\n\nWorkers from Moscow suburbs handing over new tanks to Soviet servicemen. Source: Commons:RIA Novosti (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:RIA_Novosti)\n\nSources\n\nAntony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942–1943. Penguin Books, 1998.\n\nAntony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.\n\nGeoffrey Roberts, Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov. London, UK: Icon Books, 2012.\n\nDavid Glantz, Zhukov's Greatest Defeat: The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 1999.\n\nAnthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017\n\nSound effects by Zapsplat (https://www.zapsplat.com/) .\n\n\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/43762517/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}