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...Colonel General Vassily Sokolovsky, the captor of Yelnya. A husky, keen-faced, long-nosed man, he is one of the Red Army's ablest tacticians. His myaso-roobka (meat-grinder) concept has dominated Soviet military thought since 1941, has bled Germany white of her young manhood. Sokolovsky's antidote for Blitzkrieg is slow, continuous grinding, a Verdun multiplied a hundredfold. The advance on Smolensk delights him; only two years ago he had trod this very road in retreat...
...Army General Markian Popov, the captor of Karachev. The Red Command regards this tall, thin, long-necked man with a schoolboy's face as one of the most daring of its young generals; it has jumped him two grades since April. A tank expert, he won his spurs fighting the Japanese in 1939. Some two years later his columns decimated the Italian Army in the Don loop, continued to race into the Ukraine until they bogged down in the mud and ran out of fuel. The Red Command forgave him. When the hour struck for the summer offensive, Popov...
Under the Geneva rules, captive officers are entitled to draw their pay. But in practice, to avoid transfers of large sums, the captor government pays only a nominal personal allowance. The British will pay Arnim $16 a week; the balance of his salary of about $150 a week will be credited to his account in Germany. Messe, who got a boost in rank and pay just be fore his capture, will draw about $30 a week. British officer prisoners in Germany and Italy also get cash allowances; after the war the nations are to reimburse each other for the sums...
...captor was a Shawnee named Big Turtle. He carved a little turtle on Sala-thiel's breast, named him Little Turtle, made him his heir. In the Shawnee village were other white captives, and though Salathiel lived the life of an Indian for the most part, a captive white preacher taught him to read & write fluent English...
...disrespectful. If you regard me as your prisoner, kill me, but don't subject me to indignities." Chiang was taken to a house under guard. There he furiously reprimanded his captor, Chang Hsueh-liang, the "Young Marshal...