Word: dnieper
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First Front. Russia was still the first front, massive and man-consuming. The Wehrmacht found no rest at the Dnieper, only more blood, battle and bafflement. The Red Army crunched through Zaporozhe, grappled fiercely for Gomel, Kiev and Melitopol, crashed through the German lines between the key cities, battered at the flank of the enemy's Dnieper loop, threatened with disaster his powerful forces in the Crimea...
...reached the Dnieper at night. They looked at its grey and hostile face, shivered in the chilly wind, tried to fight the weariness that comes to a soldier after days of fierce fighting...
...Army's heavy tanks remained on the east bank, and through the terrible day which followed their guns helped to repel the German counterattacks. And all through that day, ignoring German shelling and air attacks, other men swarmed across the Dnieper on logs, empty gasoline drums, capes stuffed with hay. Behind them, on huge rafts, came tanks...
Along a 150-mile stretch of the river, similar engagements were being fought. Desperately, the German command was throwing fresh divisions into the battle: Hitler had ordered the Dnieper held at all costs. But the verdammte Bolschewis-ten-the damned Bolsheviks-had attacked earlier than expected, pierced the yet unready German defenses. Moscow reports spoke of Nazi troopers streaming out of sacked, blazing Kiev...
...railroads torn up by the methodical Germans. Its rear is hungry and devastated. The winter, only two months away, presents a harsh problem in logistics. But in the fortnight of fighting weather remaining before the autumnal rains, the Wehrmacht will have to fight hard to hold the Dnieper Line...