Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such a cost had Marshal von Bock thrust into the Caucasus and heaved his tank-bristling lines to the Don bend where, with seemingly inexhaustible waves of men and weapons, he was making his greatest bid for a breakthrough to Stalingrad and the Volga. At such a cost had Marshal Timoshenko kept his Red Army virtually intact, with supply lines still open to the Caucasus oilfields and munitions centers to the east. Whether the awful costs had been worth it to either, whether they could afford such expenditure of human life and weapons would be tallied only after the battle...
...bend the struggle reached a crisis. For three weeks the Germans had inched forward, slowly cleaning out the last Russian resistance west of the river. Now they had bridgeheads across the Don where it crooks within 47 miles of Stalingrad. Two new footholds were won, the sprouting prongs of a pincer designed to squeeze off the lower Volga's key industrial city. One prong thrust northeast from Kotelnikov in great force, the other southeast from Kletskaya, in relentless progress that the Red Army was unable to halt...
Well to the north, fighting was renewed in the Voronezh sector, but with force insufficient to divert German pressure from Stalingrad. To the south, Krasnodar fell and the Germans swept deeper into the Caucasus...
...Whether Stalingrad falls before the advancing Germans or remains in the hands of its defenders will not weigh as heavily on the outcome of the Russian struggle as people believe, stated Michael Karpovich, associate professor of History...
...Before Stalingrad the Russians had been able to call almost every German hand, though at tremendous cost and with the possibility that the Wehrmacht's blue chips soon might be stacked too high for the Red Army. It was on this sector that the Germans had massed their greatest strength. They hammered forward last week to occupy most of the great eastward bend of the Don, where it comes within 48 miles of Stalingrad and the Volga, Russia's next line of defense...