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...coastal plain to Baku. There were only three other routes, all difficult. One was the narrow Black Sea coast, where the mountains almost tumble into the sea. The second was the Georgian Military Road, twisting up through narrow defiles and a pass 7,823 feet high before it falls southward to Tiflis. The third, equally precipitous, crosses the same range between the coastal route and the Georgian Highway...
This did not mean that the U-boat had been licked, even in the area where U.S. convoys were heaviest. Many a ship, unconvoyed, had been sunk in the same period. The U-boats had shied away, but they might return at any time. The convoy system was reaching southward through the Caribbean toward the South Atlantic, but in those areas and in the mid-Atlantic, sinkings of unconvoyed ships were still high. Moreover, convoying at best achieves a Pyrrhic advantage: convoys sacrifice efficiency for safety. The ships make fewer and slower trips, lose time at each end of their...
There were signs that the U-boat packs were veering southward to seas teeming with shipping to Africa (see p. 25). Brazil reported a Nazi surface raider off South America and London forecast an immediate increase in submarine attacks in the South Atlantic. The U.S. had a breather in the war against the submarines. It could not yet hail victory...
...hardened by a year of conflict and steeled by a year of hate. But still the German progress was only slightly slower than in France. At least for the moment, Russia's Maginot Line of men and tanks and guns was holding on the plains before Stalingrad. But southward the North Caucasian flatlands were suffering the same fate as the Dutch-Belgian lowlands. The Germans had wheeled south of Marshal Timoshenko's main defenses and were overrunning lightly defended territory up to the Caucasian foothills. Their swift advance down the transCaucasian railway left one body...
Above all, they did not have the Caucasus and its oil. An oft-told tale is Hitler's compelling need of oil, the abundance of which beckons him to Maikop and Baku. But another fact also draws him southward to the Caucasus: the Russians, too, must have Caucasian...