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Word: rostov (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brief, there is hardly a front where the United Nations are fighting -from the water-logged trenches along the Yangtze to the frozen steppes above Rostov, from pea-soup air above the North Sea to the deserts of Africa and the steaming jungles of New Guinea and Guadalcanal-but what at least one of TIME'S writers in New York can tell you first hand just what it feels like to be there with our fighting men, and fill in the cables from TIME'S regular correspondents from their own personal knowledge of the battlefronts of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 25, 1943 | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

Greatest of these possibilities is the recapture of Rostov, the southern railway and factory city which the Russians lost and regained last year, then lost again last July. If the Russians once more take Rostov, the Germans in the Caucasus will be in immediate danger of losing their last route of supply or escape; the isolation of the Axis armies in the Don bend and at Stalingrad will then be complete. But Rostov last week was only the eventual objective of a campaign which was just beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: History Without Mercy | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...tank successes, Lieut. General Vassily Mikhailovich Badanov this week received the Order of Suvorov, a new decoration for commanders. Commander of the drive down the Rostov railway was one of the few Russian soldiers known in the U.S.: Lieut. General Filip Ivanovich Golikov, who headed a Soviet military mission in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: History Without Mercy | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...report similar in tone to their accurate (and equally unflurried) forecast of the Rzhev offensive. They said that at Voronezh, where the Russians last summer kept a foothold on the Don 300 miles northwest of Stalingrad, the Red Army was assembling forces for a third offensive southward toward Rostov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Stalin's Liubimefs | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...southern columns and close a ring around the Germans (see map). From Serafimovich prongs spread out like the curving tines of a peasant's pitchfork. From the southern force, moving along the Stalingrad-Novorossiisk railway, prongs also curved off. One jabbed across the Don, severed the Stalingrad-Rostov railway, cut back east to squeeze Axis troops against Stalingrad. In Stalingrad itself the 13th Division began to bend the stubborn German head backward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Hitler's Lost Gamble | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

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