Sponsor: The Eastern Front Trilogy by Scott Bury
The true story of a Canadian drafted into the Soviet Red Army in World War II.
Horses sank up to their bellies in mud in Ukraine during rasputitsa.
Even tracked vehicles became mired in the deep mud.
David Stahel reveals the real reason that Operation Barbarossa failed, a conclusion he reached after the deepest research into wehrmacht records. Author of Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East, as well as several other books on the Second World War in the east, he’s a Senior Lecturer in European History…
Germany’s final, final assault on the capital of the USSR in November 1941. Map 1: The Battle of Moscow, November 1941. Map 2: The bigger picture. Source: U.S. Army archives. Soviets fighting back during “offensive weather”: Rasputitsa: Defense of Moscow: Women militia training in Moscow, fall 1941: New T-34 tanks…
David Stahel offers a fresh perspective on the Eastern Front, one that turns the common conception of the war upside-down. Author of The Battle for Moscow and several other books on the Second World War in the east, he’s a Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of New South Wales in…