Word: leningraders
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...considered the vast bloody picture puzzle of reports and rumors that he had been putting together all day. The war was going none too well. In the center, yes, Timoshenko was sharply counterattacking, the Germans were falling back. But in the north Voroshilov might soon be trapped in Leningrad. And in the south Budenny's defense of Kiev and Odessa was gravely threatened by new German eruptions east of the Dnieper. Aside from possibilities of more immediate catastrophes, if the Germans could hole up in these great Russian cities before winter, they might prepare crushing flank movements...
Lionhearted Leningrad. Rain and the first snow, driving Field Marshal Ritter von Leeb's northern forces like Hitler's fury, impeded German and Finnish efforts to close the ring around Leningrad...
...North. On the Leningrad Front the Germans pressed hard, in a hurry clean things up before mud cluttered things up. In that sector the worst rains probably over, but the days were getting so short, the sun's rays were beginning to slant so flat that soon, perhaps within a fortnight, what little new did fall would never dry. Mud would get deeper, softer, crueler...
...Germans would have to accomplish their aim either before, or in spite of, mud. Last week it appeared that the aim might not be to attack Leningrad, street by street, but to lay winter siege...
North. Although they lost Viipuri on the Karelian Isthmus to the Finns last week and were driven out of Tallinn in Estonia by the Germans, the Russians still held Leningrad and denied that the railroad to Moscow had been cut as Berlin claimed. In modern war the taking of a large city is a tough and costly job if its citizenry is as determined on a last-ditch defense as was, for instance, the citizenry of Madrid. It is more than likely that there is plenty of this spirit in Leningrad. Last week a bulletin from there declared...