Word: redoubtables
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Meanwhile the Nazis began to hole up in their southern redoubt in real earnest. The area around Berchtesgaden, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Starnberg and Miesbach was guarded by a double cordon of Himmler's blackshirts, and no one could pass without proper credentials. If, as seemed likely, the Russians and the western Allies should soon meet south of Berlin, the bastion would be cut off from northern Germany. Then the Allies would see how seriously the Nazis intended to fight in it, and how well they were able...
...Germans themselves fought desperately enough. Vienna was the gateway to the Austrian and Bavarian Alps. It would have to hold if the Nazi hope of retreat to an Alpine redoubt was to be something more than the last act of a suicide. The Germans had labored mightily to build Vienna's defenses. In the orchard country to the south, cherry and apricot trees spread their blossoms over zigzagged trench works. On the heights at the north of the city the Germans had massed their guns to fire over the parks and palaces into the industrial suburbs...
...minor port. Stiff-backed Colonel Andreas von Auloch, the "madman of Saint-Malo," finally surrendered. Begrimed (but with boots shining), proud of their stand (but reeling after a farewell bout with the bottle), the Germans gave up after eleven days of pounding. Before they marched out of their tunneled redoubt the Germans freed seven U.S. prisoners. The Americans had been treated well, had scarcely noticed the air bombardments in the four-story-deep granite fortress...
...battalions of 28-ton General Grants crunched along through the rolling hills. Heavy hitters of the northbound, attacking Blue corps, they were headed for the last roundup of the outnumbered defending Red Army. Triumphantly, the two battalions split to do a pincers on the Red's last redoubt. Then came disaster. From hidden positions in the dense cedar groves and yellow-brown hickory and maple woods flags waved, signifying heavy-caliber anti-tank fire. Grinning umpires scurried out in jeeps to rule that tank after tank was blown to hell & gone...
About 1870, artists began retreating from realism. With every fresh retreat they dug themselves a new redoubt, hoisted a flag and proclaimed a new ism. Impressionism and neoImpressionism held that artists should paint with prismatic colors, imitating the effect of light. Synthetism held that they should not. Fauvism held that artists should paint flat, abstract decorations; Cubism, that the subject should be broken up into planes. Futurism, Orphism, Expressionism, Synchronism, Abstract Dadaism...