Defense and Liberation covers the battles for Leningrad and Odessa in 1941 and 1944. As the name implies, each map will have one campaign focused on Operation Barbarossa in 1941, and another ...

The battle for the skies over war torn Europe ... for as Germany’s armies seemed unstoppable in the opening months of Operation Barbarossa, Soviet aircraft battled the odds to prove to their ...

Only a few weeks later, during the Battle for Odessa ... s career in teaching was abruptly halted with the onset of Operation Barbarossa in 1941.” Lyudmila was twenty-five years old at the ...

The Battle of Poltava was fought in July 1709 ... in what came to be known as Operation Barbarossa. Hitler's decision to invade Russia (known then as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ...

World War II is often framed as a period of extraordinary Soviet military adaptation, where the Red Army transitioned from the disastrous defeats of Operation Barbarossa (1941) to the operational ...

With every child that she brings into the world she fights her battle for the nation ... this was codenamed Operation Barbarossa, and it was the largest military invasion in history.

On August 6, Russia was invaded for the first time since Germany launched Operation Barbarossa in 1941 ... culminating in the Battle of Kiev – still the largest siege ever conducted in the history of ...

My grandmother Maria’s story is a stark reminder that sovereignty is never guaranteed — it must be defended. Ukraine’s battle ...