Stalin’s one-two punch against Germany is the Lvov-Sandomierz offensive, hitting in Ukraine as Bagration smashes into Byelorussia. It also lays bare the brutality within the Red Army. 
Map 1: The Byelorussian Balcony

 
Map 2: The Lvov-Sandomierz Operation

 
Map 3: The Eastern Front, 15 June 1944

 
Map 4: The Eastern Front, 15 July 1944

 
Map 5: The Eastern Front, 15 August 1944

 

Ivan Konev, commander, 1st Ukrainian Front
 

Lt. General Pavel Rybalko, commander, 3rd Guards Tank Army
 

Josef Harpe, Commander, Army Group North Ukraine
 
Sources:
Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012. 
Prit Buttar, Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2019.
Evan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. 
Anthony Tucker-Jones, Stalin’s Revenge: Operation Bagration and the Annihilation of Army Group Centre.  Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Pen and Sword Books, 2009.

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