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Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, the German commander in south Russia, would have esteemed Vassily Kochetkov, a junior lieutenant of the Red Army. Bock commanded 1,000,000 or more men, fighting for Stalingrad, the Volga and the Caucasus. Junior Lieut. Kochetkov commanded 16 Red Guardsmen holding a hillock before Stalingrad...
...face of Junior Lieut. Kocketkov, stilled and unassailable on a Russian hill, saying to Field Marshal Fedor von Bock...
...separate battles made, in their whole, a struggle which may rank with Tours, Waterloo and the First Battle of the Marne among the conflicts that shape the world. The battle for Stalingrad will certainly stand among the great feats of arms; the very fact that the Germans' Marshal Fedor von Bock was able to keep 500,000 or more men in battle, so far from their main bases, at the fighting end of fantastically inadequate transport routes, placed him with the masters...
...richest oilfields. Already the Germans had taken the Maikop fields and were thrusting into the Grozny region, only 100 miles from the Caspian. Thus far they had followed a railway paralleling the Greater Caucasus range, which towers east to west between the Caspian and Black Seas. Marshal Fedor von Bock was apparently taking the classic invasion route, by way of the Caspian coastal plain to Baku. There were only three other routes, all difficult. One was the narrow Black Sea coast, where the mountains almost tumble into the sea. The second was the Georgian Military Road, twisting up through narrow...
Once across the Volga, Bock's armies could well rest, counting 1942 a year of victory. The way would be clear for Germany to strike another body blow at battered Russia, perhaps in the far north against supply lines from across the seas, perhaps at Moscow, where proud Fedor von Bock has a haunting defeat to sponge from his Prussian escutcheon...