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...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...
...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...
...France the same pair was back again! Bock on the right, Rundstedt in the center. Now Leeb was with them. He commanded the left, and Germany had its greatest trio in the field. Their work had improved; Poland had taught them much. And when the French campaign was over, there was still more to learn...
This time it was Russia. Now Leeb took the left, assailed Leningrad. Bock took the center, headed for Moscow. Rundstedt took the right and headed for Rostov. This time, in a campaign against which the Junker clique was reported to have fought and been overruled, the trio failed...
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...