Word: napoleonism
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...against Novgorod and the siege of Leningrad. Encircled and facing annihilation were German defenders of Mozhaisk, last Nazi stand within Moscow's defense area. A "surrender or die" ultimatum was tendered to them and rejected. The Russians recaptured Maloyaroslavets, where Tsar Alexander's Imperial Army almost captured Napoleon. An offensive on the Oka River cut down the crack tank Army of Colonel General Heinz Guderian, broodingly handsome pioneer of modern mechanized warfare. Russian forces cut his Panzers to shreds, took vast supplies of arms and material,-a trainload of newly arrived German tanks...
...Napoleon did it, Hal Wolff does it, and I can do it," came the voice of Don S.Friedkin '42, student swami, out of the black depths of his darkened room where he sat utilizing a crystal ball...
...works in keen little vignettes-of a devoted block-leader, of a Nazi composer, of a leftish Nazi-and portraits of Hitler, of Goring, of Goebbels (with all of whom Sinclair's ubiquitous hero talks and negotiates). These portraits fall short of Tolstoy's Napoleon by as far as the whole work falls short of the sublime Homeric purity of War and Peace; yet they are honest, moving...
...last week the Russians had unquestionably made substantial geographical gains (see map), but they had claimed no prisoners. They definitely claimed superiority in the air, but admitted that large German air forces had been withdrawn from the front. The Russians claimed that deep snows were confining the Germans, like Napoleon, to the roads, and that Red Cavalry, like the Cossacks of 1812. were constantly harassing the highway-bound, rear-bound enemy; and yet the Russians admitted that they were meeting little but rear-guard resistance...
Descendant of an old French Louisiana family, and son of a doctor father, Marion Sims Souchon took a long time getting around to painting. His first hobby was history. When he had become something of an authority on Napoleon, he started to collect cacti. When air conditioning wrecked his indoor plantation, Surgeon Souchon decided that painting might be more fun, bought himself a set of paints and went to work...