Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans could not defend Berlin, then what could they defend? And if Berlin was no longer worth defending, then what center of German pride and might did not face the same fate...
...Decision. Years ago Nikolai Nikolayevich Voronov, Chief Marshal of Red Artillery, a giant of a man with the soul of a great professional soldier, had staked his reputation and his country's fate on the cannon. German generals, whom he would ultimately fight, went in for newer-fangled things. They built their army around the team of tank and plane...
Marshal Georgy Zhukov's men battled in the streets of Tarnopol (see map). This 400-year-old town is a gateway to the great fortress of Lwow; the key to the fate of the German armies in the Ukraine. To hold it, the Germans rushed in huge reinforcements (a Red scouting plane saw a column of 400 tanks), emplaced guns on a hill dominating the town, fought for every house...
...Fate. No mere whim but something more like destiny had whisked the Generals from Cairo to the arid heart of the Middle East. Aboard the transport they had stowed 3,000 lb. of pretty things: automatic rifles, ammunition, blowtorches, helmets, other samples of freshly arrived Lend-Lease for Ibn Saud...
...Wehrmacht fought for Pskov with skill and fury: beyond it lay Estonia and Latvia, and then the Baltic, washing Germany's own shores. But not even Pskov's fate worried the Germans as much as the Russian threat to the Vitebsk-Rogachev line, and to Minsk, the kingpin of the German defense system in the north...