Word: dnieper
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...After a 130-mile dash in twelve days, Russian guns were shelling the city of Kherson from emplacements across the Dnieper...
...Krivoi Rog, the Wehrmacht continued its desperate, costly-and thus far successful-struggle to keep open an escape corridor for the forces still within the Dnieper bend...
Vistas. Though the Germans had not yet admitted it, Hitler's vaunted Dnieper line ("Here I am and here I shall remain") was no more. From a point just below doomed Gomel, 550 miles down to the Black Sea, the Dnieper's left bank was virtually clear...
...Army had thus ended what was probably the toughest part of the offensive begun at Stalingrad a year ago. It had beaten the Wehrmacht in its prime, vaulted over two great river barriers (Donets, Dnieper), captured the strongest of the enemy's strongholds (Rostov, Kharkov, Orel, Bryansk, Smolensk, Melitopol, Kiev...
...Wehrmacht was still strong, but it was now a cornered, wounded panther, no longer able to mount an offensive on the eastern front. It could still seek refuge behind the Bug or the Dniester, but neither was an obstacle as tough as the Dnieper, and both were frighteningly close to the borders of German Europe...