Zhukov's Disastrous Rzhev/Sychevka Campaigns - With Prit Buttar

Zhukov's Disastrous Rzhev/Sychevka Campaigns With Prit Buttar Part of Eastern Front Week (3) on WW2TV More Red Army and Soviet content on WW2TV https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDG3XyxGI5lCIn66UGkjJu0YNQyXxAiQY If you like this video please consider leaving us a thank you donation. To the right of the up and down thumbs and share button is the heart shaped Thanks button - it helps us to keep on producing content. The fighting between the German and Russian armies in the Rzhev Salient was so grisly, so murderous, and saw such vast losses that the troops called the campaign The Meat Grinder. Though millions of men would fight and die there, the Rzhev Salient does not have the name recognition of Leningrad or Moscow. It was simply a vast tract of forests and swamps in the heart of Mother Russia that has been largely ignored by Western historians...until now. We will look at the campaign and especially the leadership of General (later Marshal) Georgy Zhukov. Our guest is historian Prit Buttar, who has written numerous excellent books on the Eastern Front and we are delighted he is returning to WW2TV for our third Eastern Front week. His latest book: Meat Grinder: The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942-43 covers the campaign featured in today's show: UK https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5843/9781472851819 USA https://bookshop.org/a/21029/9781472851819 Prit's previous WW2TV shows: 6 Panzer Division at Verkhne Kumsky - Operation Winter Storm https://youtu.be/nQLqL9_3fWM The Vyazma Airborne Operation (Red Army Paratroops https://youtu.be/pG02ehf-SI8 The Red Army 1942 to 1944 https://youtu.be/bm7twFaUaIg Prit's other books: The Reckoning: The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944 UK https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5843/9781472837912 USA https://bookshop.org/a/21029/9781472837912 On a Knife's Edge: The Ukraine, November 1942-March 1943 UK paperback https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5843/9781472835000 UK hardback https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5843/9781472828347 USA paperback https://bookshop.org/a/21029/9781472835000 Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II UK https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5843/9781472807496 USA https://bookshop.org/a/21029/9781472807496 Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943 UK https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5843/9781472835352 USA hardback https://bookshop.org/a/21029/9781472835321 USA paperback https://bookshop.org/a/21029/9781472835352 You can become a YouTube Member and support us here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUC1nmJGHmiKtlkpA6SJMeA You can become a Patron here https://www.patreon.com/WW2TV Please click subscribe for updates Social Media links - https://twitter.com/WW2TV https://www.facebook.com/WW2TV https://www.instagram.com/ww2tv/ WW2TV Bookshop - where you can purchase copies of books featured in my YouTube shows. Any book listed here comes with the personal recommendation of Paul Woodadge, the host of WW2TV. For full disclosure, if you do buy a book through a link from this page WW2TV will earn a commission. UK - https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/WW2TV USA - https://bookshop.org/shop/WW2TV