For educational purposes<br /><br />The forgotten men of the Russian campaign. That is how the long suffering soldiers of Army Group North described their war in Russia. <br /><br />While titanic struggles were being played out in Stalingrad, Kursk and Moscow, Army Group North maintained a long drawn out siege in Leningrad. <br /><br />Then in 1944, the front flared into life and a desperate life or death struggle began, as Army Group North began the dangerous retreat back to the borders of the Reich.