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...Hard-driving General Konstantin Rokossovsky had pushed 40 miles west across the Pripet Marshes. This week he was 24 miles from Old Poland...
...Germans did not hold. Rokos-sovsky's men marched into Mozyr, the Pripet Marshes' second strongest base. This week they headed toward the Wehrmacht's strongest base in the region, Pinsk, 97 miles away. Behind, in the snow-garlanded forests, countless German stragglers froze to death...
...Pripet Marshes, the puncher was Russia's famed General Konstantin Rokossovsky. For weeks, he had been massing white-painted tanks, artillery, ski troops, cavalry, aircraft. Great strength, he knew, was needed, for the terrain was cruel, the roads few, the enemy defenses thick...
Into Poland. For political reasons the Russian communiques disdained the word "Poland" (see p. 18). They spoke, instead, of gains "in the direction of Sarny." On the pre-1939 map, Sarny lay deep within Poland's Pripet Marshes, 35 miles beyond the Russian frontier. By week's end a swift-moving (150 miles in a fortnight) column of General Nikolai Vatutin's First Ukrainian Army stood almost at the city's gates. In a region of few roads, many forests and lakes, Sarny is a traffic hub. Through it passes a main north-south railway; without...
Other echoes rumbled all along the front. In the Dnieper bulge, great tank battles flared up and died down of sheer exhaustion. In the windswept plain west of Kiev, in the woods north of the frozen Pripet Marshes, the front stirred, thundered, quieted. Fearfully, Germans spoke of Russian troops massed thickly along the 300-mile front south of Leningrad...