Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the farmers, particularly in eastern Siberia, have served in the Red Army. Well schooled in the science of guerrilla warfare, they have turned their farms into fortresses, and sleep with rifles by their pillows...
...undeveloped state of India's own machine-industry, have this consequence: Japan cannot be held on the Indian front by machines but only by a hostile population. If the common people like those of Russia and China are ready to scorch their own earth and carry on guerrilla warfare, Japan's forces can be neutralized and her conquests made fruitless, even if Calcutta falls...
...take the oath of the guerrilla in all true faith. . . . If necessary I will die for my country. So help...
...mile-long food queues along Mihilova Street and the devastation wrought by his bombers a year ago might soothe him. He would not dare to make side trips up rivers like the Bosna or the Drina, because they lead to regions held by General Draja Mihailovich's growing guerrilla army. This band of 145-150,000 Serbs, Greeks and Bulgars is becoming a symbol of freedom to all the silent people of the Balkans. The Germans and Italians have increased their armies in Yugoslavia to 400,000. They have ordered peasants to grow no tall crops within 500 yards...
...Voice of Fighting Russia is almost a kid's book of brave deeds along the front and behind both lines-farmers weeping with outraged peasant piety as they destroy their crops; the obscure, invaluable labors of guerrilla warriors and of the ten million who form the labor battalions of the People's Army; the structure and façade of an entire people at war. Tank, infantry, sea and air engagements, if as consistently heroic as here reported, would have backed the Nazis off the Atlantic coast long ago. Gummy on every page with the fancy frosting...