Word: dnieper
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...summer battle thus merged with the Battle for the Dnieper, now at its height...
...upon the eastern battleground. The mud clutched at cannon and tank, swathed marching men's feet with a heavy, sticky cast, and blackend the battles' dead. But, from Velikie Luki down, nine army groups, including perhaps 27 armies, early this week pushed and plunged at the German Dnieper line - at Kiev and Melitopol, Zaporozhe and Dnepropetrovsk, Gomel and Cherkasi...
Already some Red units had crossed the river. Already Cossacks watered their horses on the lower Dnieper. Farther north, weary but exultant Red soldiers watched the gold-domed churches of Kiev, its roofs peeking through the branches of chestnut trees...
Hitler's Perils. The battle for the Dnieper had its origins in the woods and valleys of the Belgorod-Kursk sector where, in the first fortnight of July, Hitler's vast offensive drowned in its own blood. When this defeat was coupled with the Allied moves in the Mediterranean. Hitler knew he had to shorten his Eastern front and hoard his reserves of men and guns...
...Russians are prepared to take full advantage of the Wehrmacht's difficulties: >From Smolensk, they now threaten the fat German bulge stretching out to Leningrad. If Vitebsk falls, the Baltic states would soon be in Russian hands. >From half a dozen points on the Dnieper, they can outflank most of the German strongholds on the Dnieper line. > From Melitopol and the Caucasus they will threaten the Crimea. > From the Crimea, if & when it falls, they will again dominate the Black Sea, and once again Germany's vassal states of Rumania and Bulgaria will be open to a direct...