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

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

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

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    Length:
    67 minutes
    Released:
    Feb 20, 2024
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    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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        •      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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    Released:
    Feb 20, 2024
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    This podcast seeks to learn what war teaches. There’s a steady decline in the study of military history and its associated theoretical discipline, strategy. Avoiding the knowledge of war is dangerous. This podcast solves that problem by diving into military and diplomatic history.  We study strategy, and the words and deeds of significant battlefield commanders, diplomats, strategists, policymakers, and statesmen who have trained directly in the school of war.   This podcast is primarily an interview show. The subject of any given episode may be the story of an historical battle, campaign, or conflict; the conduct of policy in the course of a major international competition; the work of a famous strategist; the nature of a famous weapon; the legacy of an important military commander or political leader in wartime.