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...Marshal von Bock, losses do not greatly matter; certainly they do not matter as much as final success...
Fedor von Bock may eventually succeed in taking Moscow. But this week it appeared that he would have to make at least one more try before he even surrounded the city. Subduing it would be still another matter...
...equipment against which Marshal von Bock stakes his men's lives is, for the outside world, incapable of measurement. But this much is certain: the Russians, relying on promises made by U.S. and British missions to Moscow, are not stinting. They are throwing everything into the fight. This is a great gamble, can pay off only if the democracies really deliver...
...weather which required this camouflage was steadily worsening. According to almanac reckoning, winter officially began in the Moscow area last week. Until mid-April the ground will now be under a blanket of snow, the earth helpfully hard. To Marshal von Bock's men winter will be grim, but not deadly. The average temperature for January, the coldest month...
...winter of 1812 Napoleon retreated from Moscow, but in the winter of 1941 Fedor von Bock expects to take the city. This is partly because Fedor von Bock is driven by a furious determination shared by every German officer all the way up to Adolf Hitler; it is partly because der Sterber is disdainful of hard ships...