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...Through Berdichev the Red Army hurried to choke off the salient's corridor to Poland and Rumania. By week's end General Vatutin's men were less than 65 miles from the pre-1939 Rumanian frontier. At Kirovograd and other points on the salient's rim the Red Army hacked off and trapped hunks of the enemy. The Wehrmacht had spent precious, dwindling reserves in the November-December counterdrive west of Kiev. Now the hard question facing Manstein was not whether he could hold the salient, but whether he could get out of it in time...
Over the remote colonial past at the rim of empire, the war that is to break out at the end of the book hovers like a force more powerful than the will of the strong-willed characters. Long before it has broken out, obscure riots and inexplicably venomous slanders twist personal and social relations. Example: Hanif, Madame de St. Remy's servant (he is as dissolute as she is pious), returns from his sweetheart to find a group of men blocking his path. '"Do you spend the night beside the road, my brothers?' he inquired...
...wild western rim of Canada's Northwest Territories, 100 miles south of the Arctic Circle, the U.S. Army is in the oil business...
...hundred miles to the south, along the rim of a deep, blue-watered bay, spread another city. Once it was known for its neat streets, its champagne and cement, its busy harbor. But now it lay hushed below the hills from which rescue would some day come...
...Instead of being able to make one swoop, the Navy has to carry dribbles of men and material to the rim of its positions, housing, feeding and protecting them meanwhile, until it has enough accumulated to launch an attack. In the Southwest area General MacArthur is circumscribed by the same lack of shipping. Australia is 7,500 miles from San Francisco. It is another 1,000-2,000 from Australian unloading points to the New Guinea battlefront...