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In January and February 1944, Stalin’s “broad front” strategy takes hold and the Red Army gains the momentum in the war on the Eastern Front.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Map 1: The Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Map 2: The Advance on Narva<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Map 3: The Battle of Narva and Lake Peipus<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Map 4: The Panther Line<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Map 5: The breakout to Lysyanka<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Map 6a: The Eastern Front 15 January 1944  <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Map 6b: The Eastern Front 15 February 1944<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Image 1: Ivan S. Konev, commander of the 2nd Ukrainian Front <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Image 2: Nikolai Vatutin, commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Sources<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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

Evan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941\u20131945.<\/em> London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History<\/em>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Wikipedia, various pages. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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