Stalin’s one-two punch against Germany is the Lvov-Sandomierz offensive, hitting in Ukraine as Bagration smashes into Byelorussia. It also lays bare the brutality within the Red Army.
Map 1: The Byelorussian Balcony
Map 2: The Lvov-Sandomierz Operation
Map 3: The Eastern Front, 15 June 1944
Map 4: The Eastern Front, 15 July 1944
Map 5: The Eastern Front, 15 August 1944
Ivan Konev, commander, 1st Ukrainian Front
Lt. General Pavel Rybalko, commander, 3rd Guards Tank Army
Josef Harpe, Commander, Army Group North Ukraine
Sources:
Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
Prit Buttar, Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2019.
Evan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Anthony Tucker-Jones, Stalin’s Revenge: Operation Bagration and the Annihilation of Army Group Centre. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Pen and Sword Books, 2009.
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