Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went on to India, Burma. He rode on bombing missions against the Japs, sent grim stories about Allied inadequacies: "Boys with matchless courage are being slaughtered because they are in inadequate numbers, ill-trained, poorly equipped. . . . The last tired companies of what were proud battalions are -. . . in a galling retreat...
...studied standard works on Russia, combed encyclopedias. Since his book was to be a novel, Paul added to his research "some understanding of human nature and a little imagination." Then he set to work. In eight months he wrote 586 pages. Last fortnight, Paul Hughes's Retreat from Rostov (Random House, $2.75) reached the public. A week later it had sold out its advance edition of 15,000 copies...
...Pripet Marshes. The Wehrmacht v.ill then fall back upon its second line, running through the fortresses of Odessa, Zhitomir, Pinsk, Minsk and Riga. If this falls too, the German Army will still have a third line of defense, behind Russia's old frontier. But with each retreat, the Wehrmacht will be weaker, its defense lines less formidable...
With each retreat, also, the poison of defeat will spread. Especially vulnerable will be the Balkans, wrhere the heavy thud of approaching Russian sapogi (boots) might well set off explosive anti-German sentiment. The German command knows well the dangers implicit in these airline distances from the Eastern front: to the Ploesti oil fields, 530 miles; to the old Polish frontier, 95 miles; to Germany proper, 475 miles...
...guard the home front with the trusted SS had become something more than a foresighted precaution. As the fifth winter of war began to fasten down on Europe, Germany was in chronic retreat. The Allies had invaded Europe and Mussolini had fallen. Close to four million Germans had been lost...