Word: kiev
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...warcaster who has sat longest at a Russian microphone during World War II recently returned to the U.S NBC's thin, quiet, earnest Robert Magidoff, ex-A.P. man, has been in Russia, except for an occasional trip home, for the last eight years. Kiev-born, U.S.-raised and educated (University of Wisconsin), he was hired by NBC two and a half year ago, sight unseen. He is married to a Russian, speaks her language fluently, ha observed her people with equanimity. Some of his observations...
...South of Kiev...
...North of Kiev...
...thus ended what was probably the toughest part of the offensive begun at Stalingrad a year ago. It had beaten the Wehrmacht in its prime, vaulted over two great river barriers (Donets, Dnieper), captured the strongest of the enemy's strongholds (Rostov, Kharkov, Orel, Bryansk, Smolensk, Melitopol, Kiev...
...From Kiev, General Vatutin's army could now plunge directly west into Poland, only 130 miles away. Or it could swerve southwest, to try to set yet another trap for the German forces in the southern Ukraine. The weather in the south was still favorable, the troops fresh, supply lines from the east presumably restored in the past six weeks...