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...Hitler's order was clear: resist−or die. The Germans fought. Rotmistrov's old enemy, Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, whom he had whipped a year earlier below Stalingrad, hurled eight tank divisions against the ring. The ring was dented, but it did not break...
...Vatutin's Big Push was showing signs of exhaustion. His men were tired, his supply routes long. By & large, he had traversed the belt of German flight; now he was coming up against defenses his canny opponent, Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, had had ample time to build...
...Army's Stavka (Supreme Command) this was a signal to turn to a well-tested stratagem: dispersed punching. German reserves had been shifted from above Vatutin's sectors north to south to succor Manstein. It was time to punch the weakened fronts...
...General Vatutin's men fell Berdichev, a manufacturing center and traffic junction, once the headquarters of Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein's South Russia Command. A bitter, five-day attack expelled the Germans from Berdichev, battered them back toward the next and last railway from the Ukraine into Poland. To General Ivan Konev's Second Ukrainian Army fell Kirovograd, a station on a trunk railway leading westward from the far end of the Dnieper Bend...
...miles from the pre-1939 Rumanian frontier. At Kirovograd and other points on the salient's rim the Red Army hacked off and trapped hunks of the enemy. The Wehrmacht had spent precious, dwindling reserves in the November-December counterdrive west of Kiev. Now the hard question facing Manstein was not whether he could hold the salient, but whether he could get out of it in time. The Russians spoke of many prisoners taken, of "disorganized" Wehrmacht columns "powerless to stem our troops." But they also admitted the fierceness of German resistance. Marshal von Manstein's men held...