Prit Buttar, historian and author of To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941–42, joins the show to talk about the siege of Leningrad and about the nature of war on the Eastern Front. ▪️ Times     •      01:56 Introduction     •      02:10 A familiar story    •      06:09 Themes of the Eastern Front     •      13:19 From Tsar to Stalin to Putin    •      11:10 Barbarosa     •      19:45 An immense scale     •      27:29 Doctrinal failure    •      33:17 Inside the Russian mindset      •      37:21 The myth of the “Clean Wehrmacht”    •      40:20 The siege     •      49:15 Who stays?    •      51:18 How did the Germans fail?     •      01:03:25 Staying vigilantFollow along  on InstagramFind a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War SubstackBuy the book here - To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941–42