Ep 111: Prit Buttar on the Siege of Leningrad and War in the East

School of War · Feb 20, 2024 · 1h 7m

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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Times

• 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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