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...From Nazi-held Kursk, 125 miles north of Kharkov, the German armies also struck at the deep Russian defenses, with a blow so violent that London called it the real beginning of the Nazi summer offensive...
...lack of enough equipment to turn the German tactics near Kharkov to his advantage. Given ample arms, he was in ideal position to smash Bock's advancing forces by simultaneous attack from all sides of the pocket. Perhaps Moscow was holding its fire for a larger crisis at Kursk; perhaps Timoshenko preferred to wait until the Kharkov pocket was deeper, the Germans more vulnerable. But last week, when he wanted to attack by air at the upper edge of the pocket, he had to shuttle planes from the south, then quickly return them to the threatened Izyum sector...
Immediately at stake in the Kursk and Kharkov fighting was the important Moscow-Rostov railway, which not only supplies the Russian armies along a vast front south of Moscow, but leads to the Caucasus and its oil. If the Germans cut this railroad, as they did last year when they briefly held Rostov, they will be well on their way to the Caucasus. And, on their way to the railway, they will have to inflict great defeats on the Red Army-the only kind of defeats which can win the summer campaign for Hitler. This week those defeats were still...
Somewhere ahead of the Germans was an even bigger objective than Russia itself: an effort to squeeze the Middle and Near East in mighty pincers. This prospect was still far from reality, but it was near and dark enough to bring Kharkov and Kursk very close to Cairo in the total focus of World...
...long winter leave was done. Now, as the mobilization trains crawled toward Orel, Kursk, Kharkov and Dniepropetrovsk, leave was becoming just a memory, the sharper because of what lay ahead...