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...tanks drew closer and anti-tank guns opened up at less than 1,000-yard range; artillery and infantry closed around isolated German units. The tactics were good, as witnessed by the slowness of the German advance. But they were not enough to halt Marshal Fedor von Bock's creep through smashed, smoking ruins toward the heart of Stalingrad. As a new week started the Germans claimed they had reached a vital harbor section of the city which stretched 25 miles along the Volga bend; they won, lost, then won again a hill from which they shelled the heart...
...warning that the United Nations could read in the Red Army's heroic retreat was that soon they might have to face the Axis without effective Russian aid. If Marshal von Bock could push the Russians across the Volga and then successfully stabilize his lines, Hitler could withdraw armies and air fleets for use in other theaters...
...hope was that the Battle of Southern Russia had been so costly to Bock, disdainer of human life, that even though he won the battle he had lost the war. Hope of bleeding the Germans to death in Russia was still-a hope. The hope that Germany was crumbling within was still-a hope...
...Hygiene. Room 100. Drs. Bock and Packard. Regular classes start 9 o'clock Tuesday...
...face of Junior Lieut. Kocketkov, stilled and unassailable on a Russian hill, saying to Field Marshal Fedor von Bock...