Word: svoboda
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...spring day in 1939, a weary, grey-haired giant slipped across the Czech border. Behind him lay his ravaged homeland, echoing the Wehrmacht's goosestep; before him, Poland's reluctant refuge. The man was Ludvik Svoboda, a battalion commander...
This week Colonel Svoboda was an army chief, awaiting orders to join the great Red offensive. Waiting with him was his Russian-armed Czech army, tough, confident, thirsty for revenge. The army's heart was in the green valleys and forests of its native land. The army's motto was on its banner: Verni Zustaneme-We Remain Faithful...
...Svoboda, the sight of his new army must have made up for the years of disappointment. To bring it into being he argued, pleaded, strove to blunt Moscow's fears and suspicions. Once the Soviet Union leaders were convinced that Svoboda's army would be no future menace, they spared neither materiel nor care...
Last spring, the first of Svoboda's units, which, like the Red Army, included women, completed training. Promptly, Moscow assigned to it the defense of a crucial river crossing in the Ukraine. There, in a village much like the peaceful hamlets of Moravia, the Czechs met 60 German tanks in an angry melee. When the battle ended a day later Svoboda still held the crossing, and the site where the village once stood was littered with the shells of 19 enemy tanks and the corpses of 400 infantrymen...
...Hangman Reinhard Heydrich by the Czecho-Slovakian underground is the springboard from which Hangmen's characters take their dives. These include a shrewd Gestapo inspector (Alexander Granach) who makes it very tough for Prague's patriotic citizens to hide Heydrich's killer, one Dr. Svoboda (Brian Donlevy); a venerable professor (Walter Brennan) who gives his life to thwart the dastardly inspector; the professor's pretty daughter (Anna Lee) who gives her reputation-to throw the inspector off the scent, she lets herself be discovered in Dr. Svoboda's bedroom by her fiancé (Dennis...