Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardly was the letter in print before old George Bernard Shaw joined in the fun from his Hertfordshire retreat...
...entry along the Mediterranean. They attacked from the east as well as the west. As long ago as the middle of December, the Allied High Command decided that the Germans intended to make their last stand for North Africa in Tunisia. Allied strategists believed that Rommel would continue to retreat, delaying the British Eighth Army all he could, but keeping his battered troops intact. In Tunisia he would combine forces with General Walther Nehring and present a hard, solid front...
...Rommel's strategy of delay and retreat had worked out. He had kept his forces intact and General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's pursuit became more difficult with every mile he moved west. Rommel was falling back on strength, Montgomery was moving away from it. There were fighter bases along the Tripolitanian coast, but Rommel plowed them up as he retreated and sowed the furrows with mines. Montgomery had to build and equip fields for fighter planes as he moved along. The weather was on the Axis side. No one knew how long it would be before...
...armies Stalin coined the slogan Umeraite No Ne Otstupaite (Die, But Do Not Retreat). It had been shown at Moscow that a strongly fortified city can be held as a strong point against attack by mechanized forces. Stalin chose to make Stalingrad another such point. While Germans and Russians were booting each other to death in the bomb-pocked streets, Stalin was organizing the winter offensive which burst into the Don basin with the fury of the snowstorms that accompanied...
...massive effect on employment or disemployment? The war through Lend-Lease had cut across old tariff and trade patterns, and had linked the economic health of England, and, through England, a dozen other nations, to that of the U.S. Would business recognize a world of internationalism-or would it retreat again to isolationism...