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Some started from Monte Carlo itself, wound north across France, and then back to the finish line. Once under way, if men and machines held up, they would wind steadily through the unusually harsh winter, push on for three days and three nights across the Massif Central and the Alpes-Maritimes toward Monte Carlo...
...sees some awesome things-avalanches down the vast chute of the cwm, in which ice blocks the size of a ten-story building dance along like pebbles; gaping crevasses whose sinister gullets lead down into a blue-green shade; the ominous huddle of the Everest massif, where three of the world's greatest peaks (Everest. Lhotse and Nuptse) lean threatfully together like three witches...
Unknown Ingredient. But what of the top Nazis who cannot hide? With a compact army of young SS and Hitler Youth fanatics, they will retreat, behind a loyal rearguard cover of Volksgrenadiere and Volksstürmer, to the Alpine massif which reaches from southern Bavaria across western Austria to northern Italy. There immense stores of food and munitions are being laid down in prepared fortifications. If the retreat is a success, such an army might hold out for years...
Russia's Red Army lunged last week across the Danube into Yugoslavia. British forces landed on the coasts of Albania, on the islands of Dalmatia, inched into Greece. From two sides of the Balkan massif, Europe's two greatest powers were approaching a junction in the Balkans. Waiting at this mountainous meeting place of empires was a man who had newly risen into political history after a cryptic lifetime in the political underground: Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito. Tossed up suddenly in the slipstream of military and political movements, he was as little familiar to most...
...Damndest Ever. There was no orthodox pattern to the campaign through Provence and Languedoc, passing the Massif Central, toward the southern Vosges...