Word: kharkov
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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...
...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...
...Objectives. The Russian push toward Bryansk, if successful, would open the path to Smolensk as well as yield the Russians control over the six main rail roads radiating from Bryansk. The pincers movement converging on Kharkov threat ens the German-occupied Donets basin, most valuable prize of the Nazis in Russia...
Pushing south and west from Kharkov, the Red Army will emerge onto open, forest-free flatland ideal for swift, grand-scale tank maneuvers and mobile warfare. The Germans already fear the loss of this year's harvest in the Ukraine. Trapped by a push that threatens to reach the southern anchor of the Dnieper line and the Crimea, they would be up against a more fearful strategic problem: to retreat would mean giving up their greatest prize; to stand and fight it out would be risking annihilation of approximately...