{"id":1171,"date":"2023-11-20T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2026-10-23T11:33:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T11:33:34","slug":"operation-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/?p=1171","title":{"rendered":"Operation Mars: Beyond Barbarossa, episode 39"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">As three Red Army Fronts move on the German flanks west and south of Stalingrad, two more attack the Rzhev-Vyazma salient west of Moscow. Is it a diversion, or is Mars the twin of Uranus?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"95\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/8933041\/embed?v=202301\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"allowtransparency\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Audioboom player\" allow=\"autoplay\" sandbox=\"allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Map 1: The Rzhev-Vyazma salient<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"603\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Rzhev_salient_1941-1942-1.jpeg?resize=640%2C603&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1174\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.0600706713780919;width:600px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Rzhev_salient_1941-1942-1.jpeg?w=732&amp;ssl=1 732w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Rzhev_salient_1941-1942-1.jpeg?resize=300%2C283&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Rzhev_salient_1941-1942-1.jpeg?resize=600%2C566&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Map 2: Operation Mars<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/OperationMarsMap2.jpeg?resize=640%2C520&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1173\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.2295081967213115;width:600px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/OperationMarsMap2.jpeg?w=824&amp;ssl=1 824w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/OperationMarsMap2.jpeg?resize=300%2C244&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/OperationMarsMap2.jpeg?resize=768%2C624&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/OperationMarsMap2.jpeg?resize=600%2C488&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Historical images<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MoscowWorkers_hand_over_tanks_to_Soviet_servicemen-RIAN_archive_87961.jpeg?resize=640%2C383&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1172\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.6717325227963526;width:550px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MoscowWorkers_hand_over_tanks_to_Soviet_servicemen-RIAN_archive_87961.jpeg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MoscowWorkers_hand_over_tanks_to_Soviet_servicemen-RIAN_archive_87961.jpeg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MoscowWorkers_hand_over_tanks_to_Soviet_servicemen-RIAN_archive_87961.jpeg?resize=768%2C460&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/MoscowWorkers_hand_over_tanks_to_Soviet_servicemen-RIAN_archive_87961.jpeg?resize=600%2C359&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Workers from Moscow suburbs handing over new tanks to Soviet servicemen. Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Commons:RIA_Novosti\">Commons:RIA Novosti<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sources<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Antony Beevor,&nbsp;<em>Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942\u20131943<\/em>. Penguin Books, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Antony Beevor,&nbsp;<em>The Second World War<\/em>. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Geoffrey Roberts,&nbsp;<em>Stalin&#8217;s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov<\/em>. London, UK: Icon Books, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Glantz,&nbsp;<em>Zhukov&#8217;s Greatest Defeat: The Red Army&#8217;s Epic Disaster in Operation Mars, 1942.&nbsp;<\/em>Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthony Tucker-Jones,&nbsp;<em>Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin\u2019s War 1941\u20131945<\/em>. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sound effects by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zapsplat.com\/\">Zapsplat<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hosted on Audioboom. See Beyond Barbarossa\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/?page_id=3\">privacy policy\u00a0<\/a>for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As three Red Army Fronts move on the German flanks west and south of Stalingrad, two more attack the Rzhev-Vyazma salient west of Moscow. Is it a diversion, or is Mars the twin of Uranus? 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