Word: salonika
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...joined, everyone thought that Belgrade, lying in an open plain, would fall. But not even the gloomiest super-realists believed that Nish and Skoplje and the whole strategic Vardar Valley - places protected by formidable hills - would lie under Nazi treads in two days ; or that the fall of Salonika would be accomplished in three ; or that the Serbian hills could be traversed and Albania reached in six. The speed of the Nazi recapture of eastern Libya was even more terrifying...
...Rupel Pass. There the Greeks fought hard, using the same tactics of cross fire as had proved so deadly against the Italians in the Pindus Mountains. But the fight was vain: the Nazi break-through in the Vardar Valley, and the prong which had then turned eastward towards Salonika, threatened the troops' rear. It became necessary to abandon Salonika...
Strategy. The headlines pounded with the rich, twisty Balkan names: Zagreb, Cattaro, Salonika, Ljubljana. But the President and his counselors had to watch the whole enormous scene in a world where the U.S. was a fulcrum, balancing Britain in the Western scale with Chungking in the East...
...heaviest and by far the more important drives were farther south. Through the mountains from Sofia to Nish and Skoplje went drives intended to cut the vital Vardar Valley and divide the Yugoslavs from the Greeks. And down the Struma River valley towards Salonika went another drive to break the Greeks' back and roll the British into...
...native folklore in Albania when the Iralians seized it. She has since been living in Yugoslavia. One day last week she walked into a peasant hut on the outskirts of Belgrade and stood before 70-year-old Kosta Pechanatz, leader of the Chetniks. A veteran Komitadji, stationed on the Salonika Front during World War I, Kosta Pechanatz got a French aviator to drop him in Serbia, there made so much trouble for the Germans that it took three Army divisions to quiet things down...