Ep 111: Prit Buttar on the Siege of Leningrad and War in the East
Prit Buttar, historian and author of To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941–42, joins the show to talk about the siege of Leningrad and about the nature of war on the Eastern Front.
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Show Notes
Prit Buttar, historian and author of To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941–42, joins the show to talk about the siege of Leningrad and about the nature of war on the Eastern Front.
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• 01:56 Introduction
• 02:10 A familiar story
• 06:09 Themes of the Eastern Front
• 13:19 From Tsar to Stalin to Putin
• 11:10 Barbarosa
• 19:45 An immense scale
• 27:29 Doctrinal failure
• 33:17 Inside the Russian mindset
• 37:21 The myth of the “Clean Wehrmacht”
• 40:20 The siege
• 49:15 Who stays?
• 51:18 How did the Germans fail?
• 01:03:25 Staying vigilant
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