Word: fedorer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flamboyant Erwin Rommel and cold-mouthed Fedor von Bock were Germany's two top generals in a year whose laurels were reserved primarily for fighting men. Rommel, who drove to within 70 miles of Alexandria before he was stopped by the British, established himself as one of the great virtuosos among field commanders. Bock directed a brilliant campaign which reached the west bank of the Volga, but the final spark that would have meant victory...
...Namely: Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, recently put over all France, 66; Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, Prussian who helped conquer Poland, Paris, the North Caucasus, 61; Field Marshal Siegmund List, who led the Balkan campaign, 62; Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, who commands the northern front in Russia...
...artillery struck as the tanks drew closer and anti-tank guns opened up at less than 1,000-yard range; artillery and infantry closed around isolated German units. The tactics were good, as witnessed by the slowness of the German advance. But they were not enough to halt Marshal Fedor von Bock's creep through smashed, smoking ruins toward the heart of Stalingrad. As a new week started the Germans claimed they had reached a vital harbor section of the city which stretched 25 miles along the Volga bend; they won, lost, then won again a hill from which...
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...