Ep 230: Prit Buttar on the Great Soviet Offensive of 1944

School of War · Sep 12, 2025 · 46m

Prit Buttar, historian and author of Bagration 1944: The Great Soviet Offensive, joins the show to discuss the immense Russian campaign that broke the German Army on the Eastern Front.

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• 01:48 Introduction

• 02:50 A war unto itself

• 08:02 Flanders

• 15:20 Maskirovka

• 24:35 Soviet intelligence

• 28:27 Bolshevism

• 30:22 Lebensraum

• 31:40 Bagration

• 36:14 Cracking the line

• 39:00 Warsaw

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