Pertahanan Kota Brest

Pertahanan Kota Brest merupakan pertempuran pertama dalam Operasi Barbarossa, iaitu pencerobohan Kuasa Paksi terhadap Kesatuan Soviet yang dilancarkan pada 22 Jun 1941. Tentera Darat Jerman menyerang tanpa amaran, dan menjangkakan dapat menawan Brest pada hari pertama hanya dengan menggunakan infantri dan artileri. Namun begitu, mereka hanya berjaya menawan kubu itu selepas seminggu, dan selepas dua kali pengeboman oleh Luftwaffe. Ramai anggota pertahanan telah terbunuh atau ditawan.

Rujukan

Bacaan lanjut
 Aliev, Rostislav & Britton, Stuart, The Siege of Brest 1941: A Legend of Red Army Resistance on the Eastern Front, Pen & Sword, October 2013.
 Kristian Gantser [Christian Ganzer]: Stalina dlinnaya ten'. Plen kak klyuchevaya problema istoriografii oborony Brestskoy kreposti [Stalin's long shadow. Captivity as the central problem of a historiography of the defense of the Brest fortress]. In: Kristian Gantser [Christian Ganzer], Irina Yelenskaya, Yelena Pashkovich [et al.] (ed.): Brest. Leto 1941 g. Dokumenty, materiyaly, fotografii. Smolensk: Inbelkul't, 2016, p. 22-41. 
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 Moschansky, I. & V. Parshin, THE TRAGEDY OF BREST 1941, Military Chronicle 2007 Paperback (Russian text but English summary and captions)

Pautan luar
 Soviet Citadel of Brest-Litovsk is Captured Jun 1941, Combat footage. German Wartime Newsreel (Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr.565)
  Подвиг героев бессмертен
  Брестская крепость (English version available)

 World War II aerial photo
 German Wehrmacht movie ending with Brest claimed to be in German hands

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