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Beyond Barbarossa: the podcast

The first English-language podcast focusing on the Eastern Front of World War II

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

Scott Bury, June 5, 2023October 19, 2026

From 16 June 1942, the Germans kept coming closer to Sevastopol. Even the Red Army knew the end was coming. 

Map: the Battle of Sevastopol, June 1942

Historical photos

The ruins of the Palace of Pioneers, Sevastopol, 1942

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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