Word: bohemias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will eliminate the eastern and western fronts, and usher in the final phase of the battle of Germany: the destruction of the German pockets. These would include the north German zone and Baltic coastal pockets; the Denmark-Norway pocket; five French ports and the Channel Islands; the Latvian pocket; Bohemia; a group of islands in the eastern Mediterranean; northern Italy, which is in fact a forefield of the great Alpine bastion; and finally the bastion itself...
...weeks the Germans had been throwing heavy counterattacks, in one of which they lost 300 tanks in three days, against Soviet Marshal Fedor Tolbukhin's forces between Lake Balaton and the Danube, in Hungary. From Lake Balaton to the Moravian Gate (northeastern entrance to mountain-girt Bohemia) they had 30 German and 20 Hungarian divisions. Fighting Marshal Tito's forces in Yugoslavia they had ten more. The only sane military explanation for this spreading-out of force was a desperate Nazi desire to keep the Allies away from those approaches to the bastion...
This was important because Teschen flanks the Moravian Gate, the No. 1 pass into the natural fortress of Bohemia. Bismarck had laid it down as a political maxim that "whoever controls Bohemia controls Europe. " It was almost as axiomatic that whatever strong power controlled Silesia controlled Prussia...
...their familiar pattern, they will firmly secure the Pomeranian and Silesian flanks before they move on Berlin. If Berlin is lost before the western Allies move, the Nazis will still hold the Ruhr. When that is gone, they will still have the industries of central and southern Germany, Austria, Bohemia to nourish a diminished, compact and desperate Wehrmacht for a while longer...
...home and sets up shop in the garage. Before long Miss Dunne's infatuated stepdaughter is pinning her hair up, whereas Miss Dunne is letting hers down and, in general, acting, as the child describes it, "kinda leapy." But the leapier she gets, under the disturbing influence of Bohemia, the more nervously she yammers about her duty to the community, which does not approve of people like Mr. Boyer. Before the plot uncomplicates itself, the sculptor is engaged to her stepdaughter and she herself has received startling proposals from a high-school...