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...south the Germans threw their greatest effort against a little swampy neck of land only four miles wide. They were determined to crack the Perekop Isthmus and overrun the Crimean Peninsula, no matter what the cost...
Early this week the battle was still undecided. The Russians were cocky. They said they had sunk many naval landing parties. On the Crimean Peninsular, said a spokesman in faraway Moscow, "there is not a single German soldier in a position to fight." As in the first two days of the attack on Crete, German losses exceeded German gains. But, as in Crete, the Germans kept attacking...
This southern arm cut off the Crimea, with its naval base at Sevastopol, from communication with the mainland. The Russians, far from giving the peninsula up-perhaps remembering that in the Crimean War 86 years ago Sevastopol resisted British and French siege for over eleven long months-rushed reinforcements by sea, prepared to make a bitter stand, as at Odessa and Leningrad...
...Kiev's southeast. From there he could launch a north eastward drive on 150-mile-distant Kharkov, the Ukraine's big railroad junction and industrial center, threaten the Donets coal basin. Unconfirmed were reports that the Germans had also reached Perekop at the top of the Crimean Peninsula...
During the Crimean War, the royal Britons visited their French ally, Napoleon III. "When Bertie knelt, in kilts, before the tomb of Napoleon I, the Parisian sky produced an authentic clap of thunder, and all the French generals burst into tears." It was the beginning of a life-long love for Bertie, but not for his father. Napoleon III "was simply not a respectable ally." For one thing, there had been that "rather dreadful féte champétre . . . when the Emperor disappeared all evening with Madame Castiglione in the shrubbery, and the Empress fainted with mortification...