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...Present. But that was in the future. For the moment the battle was still joined on the Hungarian plain, its fields of yellow pumpkins punctuated by small lakes and farm buildings. Persistent rain had made the kind of mud that even stumped bullocks. Infantrymen were all but swimming in the thick goo and tanks were helplessly stalled. Nevertheless the Russians slogged on past the Tisa, past the abandoned German tanks and trucks littering the plains, and on toward the north...
Budapest itself was holding out but it was in trouble. Apparently the Germans were determined to fight to the last Hungarian, determined to make the romantic, sophisticated old capital another Aachen or Cherbourg. Refugees, food shortages and lack of bomb shelters had brought the city near to chaos. Pest, the section on the east bank of the Danube, was ordered evacuated. Pillboxes, barbed wire, tank obstacles blocked the streets...
Before the Snows. The Russians waited four weeks on the Hungarian plain until they had linked up supply lines with the Polish front. When the attack came, the Germans could do little to break it on the rolling wheatland before the capital. Pest, on the east bank of the Danube, was immediately doomed...
Veronica Lake, streamlined Rapunzel, whose divorce from Major John Detlie, peacetime Hollywood art director, becomes final on Dec. 2, announced her engagement to Andre de Toth, 29, Hungarian-born cinema director...
...behind the Hungarian front line, Yugoslavia and Greece were mere mop-up operations. Belgrade, the "white city," wise in the ways of war, was again a battlefield. Russians and Yugoslav Partisans were fighting in its streets, where Germans had erected pillboxes, antitank obstacles and gun emplacements. To the south, the railroad-junction city of Nish was captured by Partisans and Bulgarians...