Word: leningraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will was two-way. In London, cinema audiences hailed a Russian film, Stalingrad, as the equal of Desert Victory, In the U.S., audiences and critics applauded MARCH OF TIME'S One Day of War, which had been derived from a longer Russian film, and the epic Siege of Leningrad...
...Russian front there was a kind of panting quiet. Thaws made a great swamp of the yawning land. From Leningrad in the north to Novorossiisk in the south, on fields where rusting cannon and broken tanks marked the course of old battles, the two armies faced each other, waiting for the earth...
LONDON--Germany, extending its now offensive operations on the northern front to the Leningrad area, attacked throughout Tuesday with tanks and infantry but was thrown back with heavy losses, Russia's midnight communique said today...
...been to leave the Germans on something very like the line from which they started a year ago, except that they now hold all Crimea and the Novorossiisk bridgehead. The map also pointed up the smallness of Russian gains in the north. The Rzhev salient was reduced and the Leningrad siege lifted, but nothing like the hoped-for offensive eating into the Baltic states had been realized...
...surgeons had to be found, too, because most Leningrad surgeons were in the Army. The Institute gave courses which made emergency surgeons out of ordinary doctors in two weeks. Even then, nothing but wounds and emergencies could be attended to; "planned operations" had to wait...