Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Year did not live to take the bow. He died in Tunis, on Tarawa, at Salerno, on the blood-soaked fields around Kiev, Changsha, Kharkov. He lost his face, his limbs and his mind before flamethrowers, in the cockpits of blazing planes, in the insane shadows of the jungle. He had badly wanted to live. When he died, the world had lost one particle of its meaning. But his death added more meaning than it took: it gave the living another chance to abolish the ugly crime of war. The soldier who died was the father of the unborn future...
Other echoes rumbled all along the front. In the Dnieper bulge, great tank battles flared up and died down of sheer exhaustion. In the windswept plain west of Kiev, in the woods north of the frozen Pripet Marshes, the front stirred, thundered, quieted. Fearfully, Germans spoke of Russian troops massed thickly along the 300-mile front south of Leningrad...
...heard about 30,000 and about the same number in Kiev...
Russia. The Red Army blunted the Wehrmacht's most serious counter-threat: its strong wedge in the Kiev sector...
...weeks this reckless expenditure of armor kept Moscow worried. The loss of Kharkov in similar circumstances last March was still fresh in everyone's mind; would Kharkov's fate befall Kiev? But by a prodigious effort, General Nikolai Vatutin halted the German advance. As in the summer, Russian artillery won its duel with German armor...