It's the spring of 1942. As the German Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe rebuild, the high command plans a new offensive in the east. Meanwhile, the Soviets strike back in Crimea and Kharkiv.  Map 1: The Crimean peninsula Map 2: Kerch peninsula   Map 3: The Second Battle of Kharkiv Sources Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.  Ray Harris, The History of World War II podcast. https://worldwariipodcast.net  David Glantz, Operation Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941. Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2011 David Stahel, Operation Typhoon: Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013. David Stahel, Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.