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History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes: Season 2, episode 1
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History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes: Season 2, episode 1

Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2 · [email protected]

July 17, 202335m 52s

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Show Notes

Nazi Germany opens up its second summer of the war in the East with a campaign of eerie echoes with the previous summer, and the Soviets respond in the same way. History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. 

Map 1: The Caucasus

 

 

Map 2: The plan for Case Blue

Map 3: Into the Caucasus 

 

Credit where credit is due

Anthony Beevor, The Second World War. London: Little, Brown and Company, 2012. 

William Craig, Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad. Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky, 1972. 

Clayton Donnel, The Defense of Sevastopol, 1941–1942: The Soviet Perspective. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2016.

Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin's War 1941–1945.  Stroud,  Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017. 

Wikipedia, Battle of the Caucasus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Caucasus 

 


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