Word: caucasus
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Heaviest of the preparatory blows last week fell in the Kuban valley, where the Germans still fiercely defended a Caucasian bridgehead. This region could be the base for a summer offensive to regain all the ground that they had lost in the Caucasus...
...succeed in re-establishing the Donets line, the net result of the Russian drive in the south will have been a great victory; Hitler's advances of a year will have been erased-almost. The Germans still hold all of the Crimea and the Novorossiisk beachhead in the Caucasus, which they did not have at the beginning of the 1942 offensive. But the net result will be disappointing, if only because hopes for the Russians had gone so high...
...again striking deep into Russia's southern heart. Nevertheless the Russians had still not reached the objectives-stated only last week-of their present offensive: 1) to complete the Dnieper drive; 2) to prevent the Wehrmacht from consolidating new lines; 3) to clear the last Germans from the Caucasus...
...that the first two items were imagined by your editors after a look at his photograph (after all, a grinning man might be fun-loving) ? Can it also be that your editors have missed that issue of the Times which reported it's been raining in the Caucasus all through the current campaign, and that the Red troops have been slogging through the mud? Would that not make it difficult for the ski-loving general to ski down the mountains to the front...
...Caucasus battle started much farther south in the mountains, where there was plenty of snow. . . . Tsk, tsk, to suspicious Reader Francis...