Word: prussianize
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Soon, France's Baltic garrisons were aquake with jitters, and the neutrals were agape with admiration. Influential Russian Countess Canerine, whose "dark and liquid eyes" burned with "consuming fire," decided that Hornblower's manly chest was the place for her "bosom white as snow." Prussian Strategist von Clausewitz deserted from Napoleon's Prussian army, and learned, from Hornblower, what strategy really meant. Sweden joined the Allies. Tsar Alexander was so encouraged that he sent Napoleon a rude letter - which, of course, resulted in the march on Moscow...
That plan divided Germany into four parts, under four occupation governments: Russia in Berlin and the East (less the Silesian and East Prussian areas to be given to the Soviet Union's new Poland) ; the U.S. in Bavaria, in the South; Britain in a central and western area including Leipzig, Dusseldorf, and the ports of Bremen and Hamburg on the strategic North Sea coastline ; France in the Rhineland (all of the areas were still to be defined exactly...
...General Admiral Hans Georg von Friedeberg (head of the German Navy since Admiral Doenitz became Reichsführer) to reply. Grey-faced and grim, that scion of a long line of Prussian officers asked permission to surrender three German armies-not those facing Montgomery to the north but those facing the Russians to the east...
...somewhat strident boy, who early tried out the Fuhrerprinzip (leader principle) by bossing his schoolmates ("I became a little ringleader at that time"). One day he discovered an account of the Franco-Prussian War in two old popular magazines. "Before long that great heroic campaign had become my greatest spiritual experience...
...that they should not have been worked in too. Items: defeated General Robert E. Lee telling a Confederate soldier (David Bruce) that "we must move with the ages"; a Berlin correspondent for Leslie's Weekly (Rod Cameron) scooping the world on the opening of Bismarck's Austro-Prussian War, with the help of a dancer named Anna Maria (Yvonne de Carlo); Anna Maria emerging from a shell to the strains of The Blue Danube to dance some elementary ballet; an energetic cavalry battle in which her lover, a Hapsburg Prince, loses the war and his life rather than...