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After the armistice Alexander commanded a force of Letts and Germans which fought the Russian Reds in the Baltic. Later he visited Istanbul (where he introduced the Irish jig to the astonished Turks), moved on to India, where he got in some skirmishing on the northwest frontier. He also found time to marry beauteous Lady Margaret Diana Bingham; they have three children. A classic specimen of the English professional officer type, Alexander is self-contained, quiet, outwardly confident when the world shakes. He speaks German, French, Italian, Russian, Urdu, seems to be at home anywhere. Last fortnight, in the thick...
...formidable array of Red generalship that faced the Germans: Konev, Malinovsky and Zhukov in the south; Rokossovsky and Bagramian further north; Popov, Meretskov and the liberator of Leningrad, Leonid Govorov, poised for attack on the Baltic countries...
North to the Baltic. The ground, which had dried out two months ago in the south, was now fit for large-scale operations all the way to the Baltic. In the south, Marshal Konev's armies had a fully coiled spring aimed toward the Galati gap which leads on to the Rumanian plain, to Bucharest and the oil of Ploesti...
Capsule Week. The week's operations were a capsule history of the whole air war on Germany. Industries, aircraft plants, airfields, synthetic oil plants, coastal installations, railway junctions and freight yards were combed over, in attacks from the Channel to the far Baltic coast...
...thwart this plan, the Wehrmacht dipped into its reserves, last week mounted a counterattack. German infantry, tanks, bombers struck at Narva, on the Baltic Sea; at Lwów, in old Poland; in the Carpathian foothills. But the Red Army, trained well in digging in, held its gains...