Word: timoshenkos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East have raged for 14 days, we have made one attack with heavy bombers on southwest Germany. This makes a total of 18 raids on Germany during 54 days. Is this the great bomber offensive? Is this the second front in the air? Is this the great relief for Timoshenko's men who are battling day and night? The storm has broken in the Ukraine; it is threatening the Chinese and the Australians, it has reached the Indian border. But all remains sunshine and quiet on the Western Front. Is it unreasonable that our fighting men should be impatient...
...German was established in depth. Routing of front-line troops was a long way from the victory that Timoshenko needed to take Kharkov and regain the key of the Ukraine's eastern communication system...
Over a front that stretched wide to north and south of the Ukraine's industrial capital, Timoshenko's army rammed the enemy with the greatest concentration of tanks and artillery the German had yet felt on the Eastern Front. The German had to fall back before the assault, and at week's end Moscow reported that some of his units had been routed and were in flight. London newsvendors hung out placards : Tim Marches...
...Timoshenko's Riposte. Two could play at the game of limited venture; two could try for a decisive break-through on the only stabilized front in World...
...whole strength into the Crimea, although it is only 22 miles across the Kerch Straits from the oil-soaked Caucasus. To risk everything in a game of leapfrog from Crimea to the Caucasus would mean leaving their left flank open to the wiliest of the Russian generals, Marshal Semion Timoshenko...