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
Historical photos
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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