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Return Home. Five weeks ago the Russians returned to the Crimea, in a whirlwind ten-day drive swept to the walls of Sevastopol. There, Stalin's chief of staff, big, brilliant Alexander Vasilevsky, paused. When the final blow came it had to be hard and fast...
Nine months and (Moscow said) more than 300,000 casualties were the price Germany paid for the history-encrusted Crimea and its naval bases. This week, with their supply lines severed by the Red drive across the Ukraine, the Germans had lost all but a tiny, blazing corner of the peninsula. With it went their claim to full control of the Black...
Attacking from north and east, the Russians wrested the Crimea back in just one week - in one of the most complete German reverses of World...
Preparation. Last November the Russians began to probe the enemy defenses on Perekop ("Cross-Ditch"), the six-mile-wide northern corridor into the Crimea. One by one, Red scouts mapped the German fire points : 200 in the first line, more in the rear. Other units made ready to cross the Sivash (also called the Putrid Sea), the stagnant, shallow western corner of the Azov Sea. Then the commander, rotund General Feodor Tolbukhin, expert horseman and veteran of Stalingrad, waited...
...east, where the Crimea stretches its small head towards the Caucasus like an eager turtle, other troops held on to beachheads seized in the winter. In December a trapped Red unit broke through the enemy lines at night, seized Kerch piers, escaped aboard waiting Red warships...