Word: kharkov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pressure of Victories. Roosevelt and Churchill worked under great pressure. The rapid pace of military events called for urgent decisions: even as they met, the Germans backed up toward Italy's Po River, bombers continued their spectacular successes in softening up -Western Europe, the Russians recaptured Kharkov, U.S. air power forced the last Japanese out of the Aleutians. Victory was now certain-and, in Europe, perhaps near. The political pressure was equally tense. The worries of Europe's little people, now that victory could be foreseen, demanded a firm policy toward the postwar government of Germany, Italy, Poland...
...Army, the dropping barometer screamed for haste. By a prodigious and bloody effort, the Russians took Kharkov. But this skeleton of a once great city was no longer as important as it had been a month earlier. The Red Army sought space, not cities. Space was armor to protect the recaptured strongholds from counterattacks. Space gained was also momentum maintained-a crucial factor in a great offensive...
...Regained control of the crucial Moscow-Kharkov rail line...
...simple-minded soldier of the sentimental maiden-for the second time in six months-swept beyond Kharkov driving the Wehrmacht before him. He had swept the Germans from Stalingrad 450 miles, nearly to the Dnieper, been set back to the Donets when his supply lines grew overextended, and now was back again, pushing toward Poltava and the Dnieper, with the smart Germans choking the roads and their single southwestward railroad in retreat...
...Poltava falls to the Red Army from Kharkov, the maiden's soldier will threat en Kiev and all the German forces in the Crimea and the Donets bend...