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TThere was a lot of action on the Eastern Front in the autumn of 1944. In late September, the Red Army and its new allies enter Yugoslavia and connect with communist Partisans led by a man called Tito. The results will echo across the decades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Map 1: The Balkan military theatre, September 1944\u2013January 1945<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Map 2: The Bulgarian incursion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Map 3: The Battle of Belgrade<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The Lockheed P-38 Lightning and the Focke-Wulf fw189<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The Yakovlev Yak-9 in flight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The Yakovlev Yak-9 in the Russian military museum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Josip Broz, a.k.a. Tito, far right, with his staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Antony Beevor, The Second World War<\/em>. New York, NY, USA: Little, Brown and Company, 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
Giles Milton, The Stalin Affair: The impossible alliance that won the war. <\/em>New York, NY, USA: Henry Holt and Company, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anthony Tucker-Jones, 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
Morse code by Thane Brown<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Music composed and recorded by Nicolas Bury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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