{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"The Winter War: Bonus Episode 2, part 1","description":"A crucial prelude to Operation Barbarossa and the war on the Eastern Front of World War II: the Winter War between the USSR and Finland.\n\nSpoiler alert: The Soviet Union gets its ass kicked by a force less than half the size.\n\nThis episode is the first part in a three-part series on the Winter War; parts 2 and 3 will be for supporters and members only.\n\nMap 1: The Mannerheim Line of Finnish defences across the Karelian Isthmus.\n\nMap 2: The USSR's four main attacks on Finland, 30 November 1939\n\nMap 3: Soviet advances in the Karelian Isthmus, December 1939\n\nMap 4: Ladogo Karelia, north of Lake Ladoga\n\n\n\nSources:\n\nPhilip Jowett and Brent Snodgrass, Finland at War 1939–45. New York, NY: Osprey Publishing, 2006.\n\nWikipedia: Timeline of World War II (1939) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_World_War_II_(1939))\n\n—: The Winter War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War#Soviet_invasion)\n\nThe Winter War. Captivating History, 2020.\n\nVesa Nenye, Peter Munter, Toni Wirtanen and Chris Birks, Finland at War: The Winter War, 1939–40. New York, NY: Osprey Publishing, 2018.\n\nSound effects obtained from 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/43762597/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}