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Torgau is a small German town (peacetime population 14,000) but it-had its place in history long before last week. It was the scene of Frederick the Great's victory over Austria in 1760, and a junction point for Austrian and Russian armies massing against Frederick the following...
Even as you watch the immensities of a sea choked with craft, and realize the incalculably great massing and brandishing of skill and purpose assembled there, the whole motion forward has the involuntariness of a convulsion. Even as you look from a plane steep into the sea, and note the...
The Germans, while massing most of their strength in front of Berlin, guessed rightly that Marshal Ivan Konev would try to complete his envelopment of Breslau and widen his bridgeheads in the Steinau area. But they guessed wrong about Konev's power. When the blow came it was in...
¶ Americans have also romanticized their military qualities. The Union, says Brogan, has been admirably preserved from the time of the Indian Wars to World War II by "patience, prudence, the massing of superior forces." A soldier like General Custer is simply a "horrible example, to be digested and then...
German planes did venture over England four nights running. But their mission was seemingly reconnaissance in force rather than wholehearted attack. Fifteen out of 100 Nazi raiders were shot down in the biggest of the operations. Whatever information these reconnaissance raids could bring in was gratefully received. The Nazis were...