Word: odessa
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...mile-long southern front now ran across a fertile, oil-soaked chunk of Rumania and then wandered to the northwest along the Carpathians. On the wrong side of this front, isolated clusters of German troops continued to fight. Moscow reported that five Nazi divisions had been destroyed above Odessa. At Tarnopol the embattled garrison was being whittled down. In the forests near Skala ("Rock") on the middle Dniester, Red units battled the detachments of 15 Nazi divisions...
...office; he still speaks respectfully of the thoughts and wishes of the Marshal, meaning his own. He still turns now & again to admire the full length portrait of his younger self which hangs behind his chair, and to dream of the time (1941) when he led his troops into Odessa. But no longer does he really believe that brutal, brassy Baron Manfred von Killinger, Hitler's resident emissary, is serious when he asks for the Marshal's advice...
...point the first wave of the Russian tide washed to the foot of the Carpathian wall. Out on the flats of the Ukraine other waves began to lap at Odessa...
...anticipated fall of Odessa might seem the more important, but actually it was by far the lesser of the two events. Odessa was but a sand castle which the rising tide appeared certain to engulf. How the breakers will strike the mountain wall became a far more pertinent question...
Farther east on the left wing, Malinovsky's army captured the coastal fort of Ochakov and steadily encroached on the German lines before Odessa. As things were going, it looked as though the Germans, if they were to extricate their troops, would have to evacuate a good portion of them...