Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plains beside the Don the battle has only begun. Already it is erupting and spreading along the vast Russian front. No Russian loss or retreat in any one sector will be a final loss. But if the Germans win this battle-and in the Don sector they were still winning this week-the war will be indefinitely lengthened; the 1939-42 phase of it will be definitely lost. The U.S. and Great Britain, invading Hitler's Europe and fighting him on his own fronts, will then have an infinitely harder task than Hitler had in Russia. And it will...
...Since retreat has shortened British supply lines and lengthened the supply lines of Rommel, these attacks might cause Rommel real trouble in restoring his army's fighting capacity. The world will know when the whistle blows again...
Caught between these columns were great and now partially isolated segments of Marshal Semion Timoshenko's armies. A grave effect of the German strategy was to confront Timoshenko with several simultaneous Nazi fronts, further draining his limited totals of men and weapons, giving him the difficult choice of retreat or encirclement. He chose to retreat...
...Hero. By long odds the season's best novel about war, Howard Fast's The Unvanquished never mentions World War II at all. It is about those early desperate months when the American Revolution faced defeat and disintegration. The book begins with America's Dunkirk, the retreat across Manhattan's East River that saved the Continental Army after the Battle of Long Island. It ends with Washington's recrossing of the Delaware-a prototype of the Commando raids...
...July 4, 1863. After three years of military bungling by Lincoln's generals, Robert E. Lee had invaded the North and came close to smashing the Union. Actually on that Fourth the war had already been won by the Union, for on that day Lee began to retreat from Gettysburg, and on that day Vicksburg fell. Fourth of July crowds were not aware of either battle's end or of what they meant...