Word: sevastopol
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...Nazi battleship Bismarck after it had sunk H.M.S. Hood; 2) Rudolf Hess's flight to Scotland; 3) Nazi invasion of Russia; 4) Pearl Harbor; 5) Allied invasion of North Africa; 6) the Red Army's defense of Sevastopol; 7) the Dieppe raid; 8) the boarding of the Nazi prison ship Altmark and the rescue of its prisoners; 9) the British Eighth Army's drive from El Alamein; 10) the London fire blitz...
...hills were peopled by sailors who had fought at Odessa and Sevastopol, and were now determined to regain the city below them. Day after day, German shells and bombs ploughed the hills, killed men, maimed their guns. But the sailors did not retreat, and their guns let no German ship enter the bay, no train reach the station. For 13 months the sailors stayed in the hills, and each day the rows of German crosses in the city parks grew longer...
...Late. By the third week of last June the Germans were storming Sevastopol. They had broken a great Russian assault on Kharkov. They had completed their preparations for the Wehrmacht's advance to disaster in the Caucasus and at Stalingrad. Between the end of March and June's third week this year, the Germans had merely held what they retrieved from the Russian winter offensive. Nowhere had the Russians attempted an attack on the scale of their Kharkov offensive last year. Only in the Kuban, the Germans' last bridgehead in the Caucasus, had the Red Army attempted...
...told you that we are heroic participants in the defense of Sevastopol...
...Newspapers? When we have been dead a hundred years, my honorable friend, then it will be decided with the greatest of precision what we are. . . . Prepare an order expunging from regimental conversation such uncouth expressions as "Germans leaked through," "We are surrounded," "heroic Sevastopol," "drunken enemy" and other such nonsense and forbidding them from being spoken even in a state of intoxication. Do you understand, heroic clerk...