Word: kursk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, a lucid little novel, the hero is given a chance to find out. The story opens at the Kursk station in Moscow on a bright April day in 1902. Osokin, a young man of 26, is seeing Zinaida and her mother off to the Crimea. Zinaida is piqued with Ivan because he will not go with her, but he is too poor to go and too stiff to tell her the reason. The train leaves; Ivan is left alone; he feels for a moment as if the event had happened before. In the next...
...Chernyakhovsky was the youngest Army general. A colonel at the war's beginning, he became one of the Red Army's top tank strategists. He scored notable victories over the Germans at Kursk, Voronezh, Tarnopol, Vitebsk. He was Kiev's liberator. His troops (he commanded more than 500,000) were the first to set foot on German soil-in East Prussia. There, in the current offensive, his and Marshal Rokossovsky's men had taken all but 700 of that province's 14,300 square miles...
From Moscow's Kursk Station General Charles de Gaulle chugged off for home, one day last week, in a swirling Russian snowstorm. He was sleepy but happy, for in his pocket was a treaty of alliance and mutual assistance between Russia and France. It had been signed at 4:40 that morning, after an all-night session that began with a 20-course Russian banquet attended by U.S. and British diplomats and members of the military missions to Moscow...
Then he caught a train for Moscow. He arrived in a blinding snowstorm. At the flag-decked Kursk Station, a Red Army Guard of Honor stood at attention. A Red Army band played the La Marseillaise and the Soviet Hymn. Down 100 yards of red carpet marched People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Viacheslav Molotov and a reception committee of fur-coated, fur-hatted, felt-booted Russian and Allied dignitaries...
Tactics. After Stalingrad came other triumphs. At Kursk last summer Hitler made his final, desperate attempt to win in Russia. Voronov's cannon mauled many hundreds of the thick-skinned, monstrous "Tigers" (60-ton Mark VI tanks) and "Ferdinands" (70-ton self-propelled guns), crushed Hitler's hopes. At Leningrad, two months ago, Voronov's guns reduced to rubble one of the Wehrmacht's most powerful defense systems...