By the autumn of 1944, everyone could see which way the Second World War was going — even the Axis commanders. Still, they were able to hold the Red Army back in key locations like Courland and Memel.

 

Map 1: The Courland and Memel pockets, to the end of 1944

 

 

Map 2: The Memel pocket, 1944

 

Image 1: Hovhannes Bagramyan in 1955

 

Image 2: Army of Worn Soles, volume 1 of the Eastern Front Trilogy

 

https://www.amazon.com/Army-Worn-Soles-Scott-Bury/dp/0987914197/

 

Image 3: Walking Out of War, volume 3 of the Eastern Front Trilogy

 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1987846052 

Sources

Scott Bury, Army of Worn Soles: Volume 1 of The Eastern Front Trilogy. Ottawa: The Written Word Publishing Co., 2014.

Scott Bury, Walking Out of War: Volume 3 of The Eastern Front Trilogy. Ottawa: The Written Word Publishing Co., 2014.

Prit Buttar, The Reckoning: The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944 . Okford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2020. 

Evan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. 

Morse code by Thane Brown

Music composed and recorded by Nicolas Bury