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The first two of ten "crushing blows" against the German invaders of the USSR in 1944: Zhitomyr and Leningrad.

Map 1: The Zhitomyr-Berdichiv Offensive



Map 2: Cherkassy or Kherson Pocket


Map 3: Leningrad, 1941–1943



Map 4: Leningrad lifeline



Map 5: Operation Iskra



Map 6: Operation Polar Star



Map 7: Liberation of Leningrad, push to Panther Line



Sources

Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.


Evan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.


Anna Reid, Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege, 1941–44. Toronto: Allen Lane Canada, 2011.


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


Prit Buttar, Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2019.