Word: belgorod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Road Back. In that winter of disaster, the Germans retreated some 400 miles, lost (according to Moscow) 1,200,000 men and 5,000 planes, gave up Vyazma, Rzhev, Kharkov, Belgorod, Rostov, a foothold in Voronezh. Manstein, retreating along the southern fringe of Russia, shrewdly caught advanced Russian tank columns in the March mud and out of fuel, recaptured Belgorod and Kharkov, subsequently wrote a sometimes brilliant, sometimes mistaken, always futile chapter in the tactics of retreat...
Summer Retreat. After Hitler's third great offensive gamble in Russia failed last July, he pinned his hope to the Wehrmacht's line of July 5 (see map). But the Red Army counterattacked and one after another Orel, Belgorod and Kharkov toppled. Each loss set in motion the wheels of military necessity and fate. Kharkov's fall necessitated the retreat from the southern bulge. That in turn imperiled the German foothold on the Caucasus. The fall of Orel doomed Bryansk...
Since the Red offensive began in the Kursk-Belgorod sector on July 12, the Russians have rolled forward...
Hitler's Perils. The battle for the Dnieper had its origins in the woods and valleys of the Belgorod-Kursk sector where, in the first fortnight of July, Hitler's vast offensive drowned in its own blood. When this defeat was coupled with the Allied moves in the Mediterranean. Hitler knew he had to shorten his Eastern front and hoard his reserves of men and guns...
...deadly game began early this summer. Anticipating Hitler's great offensive, the Red Army massed its men and guns in the Kursk-Belgorod sector. The Wehrmacht massed its strength south of Sevsk, near the center of the 300-mile-long chessboard...