The broad front: Episode 68

34 min • 24 februari 2025

In the north and the south, the Red Amy makes great advances in the Eastern Front in February 1944.

Map 1: The Eastern Front, February 1944

Map 2: Popov’s Baltic Front pushes the Germans back to Lake Peipus

Map 3: German forces in the Dnipro Bend, February 1944

Map 4: The European theatre at the end of February 1944.

Map 5: The Pacific theatre

Markian Popov

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