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Lviv: Another crushing blow—Episode 80 of the first English podcast on the Eastern Front of World War II.

Lviv: Another crushing blow—Episode 80 of the first English podcast on the Eastern Front of World War II.

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Stalin’s one-two punch against Germany is the Lvov-Sandomierz offensive, hitting in Ukraine as Bagration smashes into Byelorussia. It also lays bare the brutality within the Red Army.

Map 1: The Byelorussian Balcony

Map 2: The Lvov-Sandomierz Operation

Map 3: The Eastern Front, 15 June 1944

Map 4: The Eastern Front, 15 July 1944

Map 5: The Eastern Front, 15 August 1944

Ivan Konev, commander, 1st Ukrainian Front

Lt. General Pavel Rybalko, commander, 3rd Guards Tank Army

Josef Harpe, Commander, Army Group North Ukraine

Sources:

Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.

Prit Buttar, Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2019.

Evan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Anthony Tucker-Jones, Stalin’s Revenge: Operation Bagration and the Annihilation of Army Group Centre. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Pen and Sword Books, 2009.

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