Sunday Feb 09, 2025

The Red Army has the momentum: Episode 67

In January and February 1944, Stalin's "broad front" strategy takes hold and the Red Army gains the momentum in the war on the Eastern Front.

Map 1: The Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket

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Map 2: The Advance on Narva

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Map 3: The Battle of Narva and Lake Peipus

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Map 4: The Panther Line 

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Map 5: The breakout to Lysyanka

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Map 6a: The Eastern Front 15 January 1944  

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Map 6b: The Eastern Front 15 February 1944 

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Image 1: Ivan S. Konev, commander of the 2nd Ukrainian Front

  

Image 2: Nikolai Vatutin, commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front

 

 
Sources

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

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

Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988.

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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