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German civilians bombed out of the Reich were "advised" to leave Rumania within ten days. In Bessarabia, boys of 16-18 were called for military service. Ships were being massed in Rumania's ports to evacuate the battered, impatient Axis troops in Nikolayev, Odessa, the Crimea...
...Zhukov's greatest tactical gain was his blow at Nazi communications. He cut the Odessa-Lwów railroad. Three German armies still in the Ukraine had now lost their last rail line of escape, would have to retreat along the muddy country roads of Bessarabia and the Ukraine, or from the Black Sea's battered ports. Manstein apparently had waited too long to pull...
...South of captured Shepetovka, where the Reds were now only 55 miles from the German "escape road" from Odessa to Warsaw. A five-day offensive netted the Russians a 41-mile advance, 800 towns and villages, including Luga...
...Vinnitsa and Sarny, battles raged (see map, p. 23). More than ever, the Red Army fought for railroads. Near Vinnitsa a force under General Nikolai Vatutin kept its eye on the Odessa-Warsaw line; the Germans had to hold it to escape disaster in the Dnieper bend...
...field commander. In the summer of 1940, his armies broke through the Somme line in France. A year later he became an army commander in Russia when Ukrainian guerrillas killed his chief, Colonel General Eugen Ritter von Schobert. For yet another year, Manstein marched from victory to victory-Odessa, Perekop, Kerch, Sevastopol. But victory was tinged with pain: his two boys, both lieutenants, died in action. And the sands of luck were running...