{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Episode 6: Germany ... triumphant?","description":"Having captured most of Ukraine and with a choke-hold on Leningrad, Germany appears to be winning as it advances on Moscow. But the big picture looks different close up.\n\nThe Battle of Smolensk may just be the big turning point in the was in the East.\n\nThis episode sponsored by The Eastern Front Trilogy, the true story of a Canadian drafted into the Red Army in World War II.\n\nThe Eastern Front Trilogy (https://bit.ly/EFTforUkraine) .\n\nAll proceeds from the sales of The Eastern Front Trilogy in paperback or its constituent e-books will go to helping Ukrainian refugees until all Ukrainians can return home safe from Russian military aggression.\n\nContact the author by email to contact@writtenword.ca (mailto:contact@writtenword.ca)\n\nSupport the podcast on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/BeyondBarbarossa) .\n\nMap 1: The situation in the summer of 1941\n\nMap 2: The Battle of Smolensk\n\nThe best tank of the war: the Soviet T34\n\n\n\nThis file is licensed under the Creative Commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Creative_Commons)  Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en) license. Attribution: Лишь человек (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D1%88%D1%8C_%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA)\nThe Soviet KV-1 heavy tank\n\n\n\nThe Soviet PTRD-41 anti-tank gun\n\nSource: RIA Novosti archive, image #4408 / N. Bode / CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.\n\nThe Katyusha\n\n\n\nThe Katyusha in action\n\nThis file is licensed under the Creative Commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Creative_Commons)  Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en)  license.Attribution: RIA Novosti archive, image #303890 / Zelma / CC-BY-SA 3.0  Books cited in this episode:\nDavid Glantz: Operation Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941. Stroud, Gloucetershire, UK, 2011.\n\nDavid Stahel: Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.\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/43762659/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}