The fall of Sevastopol, part 2: Beyond Barbarossa episode 28
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From 16 June, the Germans kept coming closer. Even the Red Army knew the end was coming.  Map: the Battle of Sevastopol, June 1942   The ruins of the Palace of Pioneers, Sevastopol, 1942   Sources:  Clayton Donnell, The Defence of Sevastopol, 1941–1942: The Soviet Perspective. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Books, 2016 Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.  Petr A. Morgunov, Heroic Sevastopol. Moscow: Nauka, 1979 (Cited in Donnell, The Defence of Sevastopol, 1941–1942.) Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017 Wikipedia: various pages.
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