After stopping Operation Barbarossa, at the opening of 1942, the Red Army launches a series of offensives to drive the Germans back to Berlin. A series of offensives that became a series of bloody failures.
Map 1: The Soviet Winter Offensives, December 1941 – May 1942
Map 2: The Crimean Peninsula
Map 3: The Kerch Peninsula
The Red Army and Navy land on the eastern extremity of Crimea
Map 4: The Lyuban Offensive, or the Battle of Volkhov
Map 5: The Demyansk Pocket
Sources:
Clayton Donnell, The Defence of Sevastopol, 1941–1942: The Soviet Perspective. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2016
David Glantz, Operation Barbarossa: Hitler’s Invasion of Russia 1941. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2011
David Stahel, Operation Typhoon: Hitler’s March on Moscow, October 1941. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013
David Stahel, Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany’s Winter Campaign, 1941–1942. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019
Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017
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