Word: caucasus
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They have cleared the Caucasus, reoccupied almost half of the Ukraine, imperiled the Crimea, reached the borders of White Russia. They have bled the Wehrmacht, destroyed the bulk of its Panzer...
...help Colonel General Fedor Tolbukhin seal the narrow Crimean bottleneck. If these two able generals succeeded, the German forces in the Crimea and Kuban-perhaps as many as 300,000 men- would find themselves trapped within a huge nutcracker, one jaw pressing from the Ukraine, the other from the Caucasus. Russia's Black Sea Fleet, based on recaptured Novorossiisk, would add to the Wehrmacht's woes...
...never had the peril seemed so black for the United Nations. The Nazis were near the Volga and the Nile. Another grand plunge and they would have the Caucasus, the Middle East and an avenue to junction with Japan...
Look and see what is taking place at the fronts. The defeats of the last seven months are unparalleled in the history of Germany-Stalingrad, the Don, the Caucasus, Libya and Tunisia...
...Late. By the third week of last June the Germans were storming Sevastopol. They had broken a great Russian assault on Kharkov. They had completed their preparations for the Wehrmacht's advance to disaster in the Caucasus and at Stalingrad. Between the end of March and June's third week this year, the Germans had merely held what they retrieved from the Russian winter offensive. Nowhere had the Russians attempted an attack on the scale of their Kharkov offensive last year. Only in the Kuban, the Germans' last bridgehead in the Caucasus, had the Red Army attempted...