Bagration 1944, The Great Soviet Offensive - Part 1: Planning

Описание: Bagration 1944, The Great Soviet Offensive - Part 2: Implementation
With Prit Buttar
Operation Bagration Week
   • Operation Bagration  
Part of our ongoing Eastern Front series on WW2TV
   • Eastern Front Week  

Throughout the war on the Eastern Front, there were two consistent trends. The Red Army battled to learn how to fight and win, while involved in a struggle for its very survival. But by 1944 it had a leadership that was able to wield it with lethal effect and with far more effective equipment than before. By contrast, the Wehrmacht had commenced a slow process of decline after the invasion of the Soviet Union. Hitler became increasingly unwilling to delegate decision-making to commanders in the field, which had been crucial to earlier success. The long years of fighting had also taken a heavy toll. Thousands of irreplaceable junior officers and NCOs were dead, wounded or prisoners.

Renowned Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar joins us to explain how the Red Army planned this great new summer offensive.

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Prit Buttar studied medicine at Oxford and London before joining the British Army as a doctor. After leaving the army, he worked as a GP, first near Bristol and then in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. He is extensively involved in medical politics, both at local and national level, and served on the GPs' Committee of the British Medical Association. He has appeared on national TV and radio, speaking on a variety of medical issues. He contributes regularly to the medical press.

Prit's previous appearances:
Part 2
https://youtube.com/live/X8r2SjkdN6c
The Bobruysk Offensive and the Destruction of the German Ninth Army
https://youtube.com/live/xnkiNEN4-e0
80th Anniversary of the end of the Siege of Leningrad
https://youtube.com/live/8ewC3fzCpiA
80th Anniversary of Operation Iskra - Leningrad, January 1943
https://www.youtube.com/live/PZ8UgiNc...
Zhukov's Disastrous Rzhev/Sychevka Campaigns
https://www.youtube.com/live/yIQ4U447...
The Vyazma Airborne Operation (Red Army Paratroops)
https://www.youtube.com/live/pG02ehf-...
6 Panzer Division at Verkhne Kumsky - Operation Winter Storm
https://www.youtube.com/live/nQLqL9_3...
The Lithuanian Holocaust. Murderers, heroes, and victims
https://www.youtube.com/live/aVX3LpjU...

Prit's books:
Meat Grinder: The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942-43
UK https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5843/978147...
USA https://bookshop.org/a/21029/97814728...

To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941–42 by Prit Buttar
UK https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5843/978147...
USA https://bookshop.org/a/21029/97814728...

Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943
UK https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5843/978147...
USA hardback https://bookshop.org/a/21029/97814728...
USA paperback https://bookshop.org/a/21029/97814728...