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From 16 June 1942, the Germans kept coming closer to Sevastopol. Even the Red Army knew the end was coming.\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Map: the Battle of Sevastopol, June 1942<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Historical photos<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The ruins of the Palace of Pioneers, Sevastopol, 1942<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sources: <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Clayton Donnell, The Defence of Sevastopol, 1941\u20131942: The Soviet Perspective<\/em>. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Books, 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antony Beevor, The Second World War<\/em>. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Petr A. Morgunov, Heroic Sevastopol.<\/em> Moscow: Nauka, 1979 (Cited in Donnell, The Defence of Sevastopol, 1941\u20131942.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin\u2019s War 1941\u20131945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wikipedia: various pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From 16 June 1942, the Germans kept coming closer to Sevastopol. Even the Red Army knew the end was coming.\u00a0 Map: the Battle of Sevastopol, June 1942 Historical photos Sources:  Clayton Donnell, The Defence of Sevastopol, 1941\u20131942: The Soviet Perspective. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Books, 2016 Antony Beevor,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[321,207,35,59,318,32,162,317,31,208,313,34,48,43,33,144,30,28],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-season-1","tag-balaclava","tag-crimea","tag-eastern-front","tag-hitler","tag-maxim-gorky","tag-nazi-germany","tag-romania","tag-sapun-heights","tag-second-world-war","tag-sevastopol","tag-severnaya-bay","tag-soviet-union","tag-stalin","tag-ukraine","tag-ussr","tag-wehrmacht","tag-world-war-2","tag-world-war-ii"],"yoast_head":"\nThe fall of Sevastopol, part 2: Beyond Barbarossa, episode 28 - Beyond Barbarossa: the podcast<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From 16 June 1942, the Germans kept coming closer to Sevastopol. 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