Word: caucasus
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Drug Tito, De Luce found, "has welded his guerrillas into a tightly disciplined and hotly idealistic force that shows more enthusiastic determination than any outfit I've seen since I met Major General Vassili Novikov's Caucasus Army. . . . It's a people's army, and presumably susceptible to most of the mistakes . . . ex-civilians usually make. But its spirit is amazing and exhilarating. It knows how to shoot straight...
...clearing of the Caucasus by an army directed by square-jawed Marshal Semion Timoshenko. Stalin hinted the victory cleared the way for an attack on the Crimea, claimed the defeat cost the Germans 20,000 dead, 3,000 prisoners...
...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...
...Captured the last German ports of escape in the Caucasus...
...From Smolensk, they now threaten the fat German bulge stretching out to Leningrad. If Vitebsk falls, the Baltic states would soon be in Russian hands. >From half a dozen points on the Dnieper, they can outflank most of the German strongholds on the Dnieper line. > From Melitopol and the Caucasus they will threaten the Crimea. > From the Crimea, if & when it falls, they will again dominate the Black Sea, and once again Germany's vassal states of Rumania and Bulgaria will be open to a direct attack...