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Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front - An Untold Story of World War II (Paperback)
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Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front - An Untold Story of World War II (Paperback)
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'Many books claim to tell an "unknown" story of the Second World
War. Few of them actually do. Forgotten Bastards is a rare
exception . . . This is gripping history' Duncan Weldon, Prospect A
riveting story of World War II from the author of Chernobyl, winner
of the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction In November 1943, with
the outcome of the Second World War hanging in the balance, the
Allies needed a new plan. The Americans' audacious suggestion to
the Soviets was to open a second air front, with the US Air Force
establishing bases in Soviet-controlled territory. Despite Stalin's
obvious reservations about the presence of foreign troops in
Russia, he was persuaded. Operation Baseball and then Frantic were
initiated in early 1944 as B-17 Superfortresses were flown from
bases in Italy to the Poltova region in today's Ukraine.
Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy tells the gripping,
little-known story of this encounter between American and Soviet
soldiers and how their collaboration quickly fell apart, mirroring
the transition from the Grand Alliance to the Cold War. Soviet
secret policemen watched over the Americans, shadowing their every
move. A catastrophic air raid by the Germans revealed the
limitations of Soviet air defences. As their initial enthusiasm
turned into disappointment, the American soldiers started calling
themselves the Forgotten Bastards of Ukraine. Ultimately, no common
purpose could overcome their cultural and political differences.
Drawing on newly opened Russian archives as well as CIA records,
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front offers a riveting bottom-up
history of one of the Second World War's most unlikely alliances.
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