Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South of Warsaw, Marshal Rokossovsky's armies swarmed to the Vistula, cleared a 60-mile stretch of the east bank, paused while their artillery poured hell into the German positions on the other side. Here the river was 600 feet wide, but no river had held up the Red engineers very long...
Lvov, the greatest rail city of southeastern Poland, was taken by wily, egg-bald Marshal Konev, commanding the First Ukrainian Army in place of Marshal Zhukov, who had gone to Moscow to be Stalin's deputy commander in chief. On the rail line to Cracow, Konev stormed Przemysl and Jaroslav. At Przemsyl he was 180 miles from the Silesian corner of Germany...
Major Randolph Churchill, only son of Britain's Prime Minister and a veteran of a previous British mission to Marshal Tito (see PRESS), flew from Italy to Yugoslavian Partisan headquarters with his good friend Major Evelyn Waugh, satirical English novelist (Decline and Fall, Put Out More Flags) and Comman-doman. As the plane neared the field it went into a dive and crashed, killing the five-man crew and two Partisan passengers. Churchill, Waugh, British War Correspondent Philip Jordan and four Russian officers escaped with minor injuries, next day were evacuated by plane to a British hospital in Italy...
Last month TIME Correspondent Stoyan Pribichevich told the dramatic story of his capture and escape from Nazi parachutists sent to seize Marshal Tito (TIME, June 26). Herewith the sequel-the report of a mass march by Partisans and Allied associates through Yugoslavia's German-infested mountains...
...kill him. Please take him with you and ask Tito to accept him as a soldier." I looked at the handsome 16-year-old boy behind her. "Are you ready to fight under Tito?" "Yes," he said. "Then come with me, and I will speak to one of the Marshal's commanders." The woman tucked a piece of bread into the hands of her last son, made the sign of the cross above his head, and vanished. Up and down we marched, first through the woods and then through a lunar panorama, of fierce broken crags. We overtook...