Word: leeb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Namely: Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, recently put over all France, 66; Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, Prussian who helped conquer Poland, Paris, the North Caucasus, 61; Field Marshal Siegmund List, who led the Balkan campaign, 62; Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, who commands the northern front in Russia...
...year ago, Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb threw three armies around the city. He failed to take it by storm. He then settled down to reduce it by attrition. Early in the siege, warehouses chocked with food enough for three years were destroyed by German bombers. The air was acrid with burning wheat. Gutters ran with melted chocolate...
...supply route and enabled Russia to keep Kronstadt, its last base in the Baltic. From Kronstadt Russian submarines and other survivors of the Red Fleet last week were still harassing Axis ships in the Gulf of Finland. On the Karelian Isthmus Russian soldiers were still holding off Finnish assaults. Leeb's armies, which once had plunged 125 miles east, now had been pushed back 100 miles and were holding a corridor only eight miles wide stretching north to Lake Ladoga (see map). Against both sides of the corridor the Russians were pressing hard...
...harsh face of Bock could turn into the face of victory for Hitler and the Germans. That face was everywhere in Russia. It was the face of Dietl on the Finnish front, where the Russians fought to keep their access to the North Atlantic. It was the face of Leeb on the northern front, where the Russians were reduced to sending training planes with bombs against the German ring around Leningrad. It was the face of List on the Central front, where the Russians at Rzhev fought to press the Germans back from Moscow's door...
When the madness passed, Bock went back on the Russian front: he had Rundstedt's old southern sector, and this time knifed through and past Rostov. So did Leeb, in his old Leningrad sector. "Der General" went back to harness, too, and der Führer had honored him with one of the Reich's most important but least thankful commands. In France, at the first, it was quiet and there was much building to do. Now there are more invasion barges on the beaches, more gunfire in the night, and the skies are laced with the bright...