Word: terraine
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...Germans coming in, narrowly missed a grenading by an advance Nazi motorcycle squad, and with a U.S. military attaché drove upstream through the Panzer army to Belgrade. His further progress eastward included a stop in Ankara, a hitch in Syria on the British push into that hellish terrain, and the job of covering the Cretan campaign from Cairo...
Between the two groups there were seven miles of Axis-held terrain. It took the British, with their Imperial, Polish and Czech allies, five days to drive the enemy from the intervening territory. On the fifth day a British Tommy and a New Zealand infantryman clasped hands at El Duda...
...This terrain is decorated with superb internal communications, which favor the defender. Moscow is the focus of ten radiating railroads, and even though the Germans have cut six of those roads, the stumps are still available for throwing troops into this or that sector of the front. There are, besides, eleven trunk highways and numberless small roads running north, west and south from the city. Moscow teems with busses, trucks and cars available for urgent transport...
...advance through Moscow's terrain of swamps, forests, rivers, and especially of forts-in-depth could not possibly be a Blitz advance. It was a slow, painful, scrabbling process...
...attack through Thailand would also run into difficult terrain, both swampy and mountainous. It would run into Thailand's questionable Army and, eventually, into seasoned British and Indian troops. But, if successful, such an attack would have the merit of capturing Thailand's resources of rice and tin, of cutting off the Allies' aid to China at its root...