{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"The invasion of Crimea: Beyond Barbarossa, episode 14","description":"The battle for Crimea is almost a microcosm of the entire war on the Eastern Front of World War II.\n\nSatellite photo of southern Crimea: Severnaya Bay is the long, narrow bay curving upward into the land. Sevastopol is located on the smaller bay at right angles.\n\n\n\nThis image was taken by the Nasa Expedition 20 crew. - NASA Earth Observatory (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=39882) . Source: Wikimedia Commons.\n\n\n\nMap source: Nations Online Project. https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/Crimea-map.htm\n\nOther sources:\n\nClayton Donnell, The Defence of Sevastopol, 1941–1942: The Soviet Perspective. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2016.\n\nDavid Glantz, Operation Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2011.\n\n\n\nDavid Stahel, Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010.\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/43762619/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}