Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army advanced six miles near the confluence of the Gzhat River and the mighty Volga's headwaters. Bridgeheads were established across the Gzhat. The Russians met terrific resistance from Germans holding a railway line until a simultaneous frontal and flank assault forced a Nazi retreat. Day after day the Russians hammered forward across the Volga and into the outskirts of Rzhev. House by house the Germans defended the city which had been their most advanced headquarters on the northern front. Churches and other thick-walled structures had been turned into small fortresses, with mortars and machine guns...
...lose Stalingrad, to lose control of the Volga, to have the Red Army cut off from the Caucasus with its oil, steel and supply route to sources outside. From Moscow Soviet Writer Emelian Yaroslavsky broadcast this meaningful message to the Russian people: "Not only can we not afford to retreat any farther, but we must, at all costs, throw the enemy back. Hitler must be destroyed and destroyed this year. There is no alternative...
Alexander succeeds Auchinleck in the over-all command of the Middle East. Under him, in direct command of the Eighth Army in Egypt, he has Lieut. General Bernard Law Montgomery, a 54-year-old Ulsterman who is also a veteran of the retreat from France. But, like Wavell and Auchinleck (who at the last held both the area and army commands), Alexander is responsible for victory or defeat...
...years ago Holiday Inn was a musical note in Songsmith Berlin's melodious mind. He wanted to drape a Broadway show around a series of songs for U.S. national holidays. Holiday Inn provided him with the right framework. According to its episodic plot, Singer Crosby turns his rural retreat into a roadhouse on every holiday in order to make country life pay, and to give himself and Fred Astaire a chance to sing and dance...
...Russian counter-thrust near Moscow will have no effect unless a break-through along the Germans' Smolensk supply line can be made, he stated. Such a break-through would force the Nazis to retreat and draw troops from the South to check the Russian drive...