Word: albania
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...campaigns rise and ebb like the tides. Last week Europe waited the great flood tides of spring: a probable campaign in the Balkans (see below), an almost certain assault on Britain. But these tides had not yet begun to rise for the tides of winter still receded. In Albania the Greek wave still lapped at the battered Italian Army-after weeks of siege Klisura fell and Mussolini once more changed commanders. In Libya the British campaign still rolled on (see p. 25), but it had been won before Bardia was reached. What remained to be seen was how much...
This year, the main Allied Armies are in the eastern Mediterranean: the Greeks in Albania, the British and Anzacs in Libya. And the easiest way for the Nazis to get into the area where the Allied arms are now rampant-the only way to get there by land-is through Bulgaria and its neighbor Yugoslavia. So 1941 finds Bulgaria and Yugoslavia in much the same predicament as Belgium and The Netherlands in the first weeks...
While the British struck on to Tobruch last week, trying to get there before Italy could bring up German help, the amazing Greeks moved northward through snow & cold toward Valona in a race against the Nazi aid promised Italy in Albania. Stukas were already in operation...
...Admiralty had few ships to spare for countering the expanding eastern flank of the counter-blockade. Its Home Fleet was still chained to British Isles bases by invasion threats (see p. 24). Its Mediterranean Fleet was busy choking off supplies intended for Italy's armies in Libya and Albania...
...cruiser and destroyer screen that had led the British battlewagons to Valona kept going northward. Some of them swept the Italian coast as far as Bari, a harbor right on the Achilles' tendon above Italy's heel. Another detachment swept northeast as far as Durazzo, Albania's second-best landing spot. Sir Andrew was on his flagship, had brought his fleet up on a quick run from the African coast, pausing to contact supply ships, after pounding the daylights out of Bardia and points west. While he was busy at Valona his light forces made it clear...