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When All Hell Broke Loose: Germany’s Last Defences vs the Soviet Onslaught WW2

As the Soviet war machine closed in on the heart of Nazi Germany, the Eastern Front descended into chaos. Hitler’s last defenses were stretched thin, with exhausted Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS units ...
American Enterprise Institute

The Eastern Front and the Great War: Drawing Historical Parallels (with Nick Lloyd)

On this episode of The Eastern Front, Dalibor and Iulia welcome Nick Lloyd, a historian and professor of modern warfare at King’s College London to discuss historical parallels to our current moment.
The Economist

Much of the Great War was decided in the east

The Eastern Front. By Nick Lloyd. Viking; 672 pages; £30. To be published in America by W.W. Norton in August; $42 Just 29 years old, Karl I was desperate to lead Austria-Hungary out of the first ...
Time

WAR IN CHINA: Far Eastern Front

“Blue,” says the Barbarian Britannus in Shaw’s Caesar & Cleopatra, “is the color worn by all Britons of good standing. In war we stain our bodies blue; so that though our enemies may strip us of our ...
CNN

Kursk: Ukraine’s front inside Russia was the site of key Soviet World War II victory

Ukraine’s military incursion into Russian territory in the Kursk region is covering some of the same territory on which the Soviet Union scored one of its most important victories over German invaders ...