rich 1.0 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. The Battle of Smolensk may just be the big turning point in the was in the East. This episode sponsored by The Eastern Front Trilogy, the true story of a Canadian drafted into the Red Army in World War II. The Eastern Front Trilogy (https://bit.ly/EFTforUkraine) . All 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. Contact the author by email to contact@writtenword.ca (mailto:contact@writtenword.ca) Support the podcast on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/BeyondBarbarossa) . Map 1: The situation in the summer of 1941 Map 2: The Battle of Smolensk The best tank of the war: the Soviet T34 This 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) The Soviet KV-1 heavy tank The Soviet PTRD-41 anti-tank gun Source: RIA Novosti archive, image #4408 / N. Bode / CC-BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The Katyusha The Katyusha in action This 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: David Glantz: Operation Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941. Stroud, Gloucetershire, UK, 2011. David Stahel: Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See https://ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information. Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2 https://audioboom.com/channels/5173732-beyond-barbarossa-the-eastern-front-of-world-war-2 Audioboom https://audioboom.com 480 95 https://audioboom.com/i/43762659/600x600/c 600 600 <iframe width="100%" height="95" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/8933076/embed?v=202301" style="background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" scrolling="no" title="Audioboom player" allow="autoplay" sandbox="allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe>