Sunday Jun 04, 2023

The fall of Sevastopol, part 2: Beyond Barbarossa episode 28

From 16 June, the Germans kept coming closer. Even the Red Army knew the end was coming. 

Map: the Battle of Sevastopol, June 1942

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The ruins of the Palace of Pioneers, Sevastopol, 1942

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Sources: 

Clayton Donnell, The Defence of Sevastopol, 1941–1942: The Soviet Perspective. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Books, 2016

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

Petr A. Morgunov, Heroic Sevastopol. Moscow: Nauka, 1979 (Cited in Donnell, The Defence of Sevastopol, 1941–1942.)

Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017

Wikipedia: various pages.

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