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Behind Zhitomir he had been hoarding vast masses of tanks. When Vatutin's mobile columns outraced their artillery and infantry support, Manstein struck. With more than 1,600 tanks in pursuit, the Russians abandoned Zhitomir, fled across the flat, muddy terrain. Kiev itself was in peril...
...sudden Italian surrender last September dangerously exposed the Nazi line across southern Europe. But the Wehrmacht had anticipated the Anglo-American landing at Salerno, thereby scotched the Allied plan for a sweep to Rome. It accurately gauged the Badoglio Government's weakness. It understood the possibilities of terrain and weather, knew how to capitalize on them. It won time to build a vicious, vexing defense in depth...
...weather, worse terrain, water-bound flanks and skillful enemy delaying tactics had decelerated what first promised to be a climactic thrust up the Italian boot. It was also evident that the Allies intended to push no costly drive up to the Brenner gateway to Germany. The forces to battle through were needed in other theaters...
Their book is less a handbook than a lively, disorderly, hair-splitting collection of obiter dicta. In an agile linguistic commando raid Authors Graves & Hodge survey the terrain of English prose and map its modern contours. Armed with 25 "principles of clear statement" they blast at 54 recent writers...
...patho logically detached Leonardo also served the most bloodthirsty power politician of the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI. Leonardo was Borgia's military engineer, with no inter est whatever in politics. There exist some remarkable maplike bird's-eye views of the Italian terrain which Leonardo drew for Borgia's ill-fated campaigns...