Word: timoshenkos
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When Hitler invaded Russia, Bagramian was a colonel. Five months later, tough Bagramian was a lieutenant general. He became tough Marshal Semion Timoshenko's Assistant Chief of Staff, tasted the bitterness of defeat, learned precious lessons...
...clearing of the Caucasus by an army directed by square-jawed Marshal Semion Timoshenko. Stalin hinted the victory cleared the way for an attack on the Crimea, claimed the defeat cost the Germans 20,000 dead, 3,000 prisoners...
Over Paul's desk also came the prodigious data of the outside world. One night he edited a story about Marshal Timoshenko's defense of Rostov. For the first time, Paul realized, the Nazi army had been held, walloped, hurled back...
...northern retreat began in the Demyansk swamps south of Lake Ilmen, where Marshal Semion Timoshenko climaxed an offensive with a great breakthrough (TIME, March 8). For 18 months the Germans had clung doggedly to the western part of the swamp area. In the warm months these marshlands form one of the best natural barriers in Russia. Last year this barrier served the Germans; this year it will serve the Red Army and hamper any German counteroffensive in the north. Winter's freeze made the swamps passable, and Timoshenko used the waning weeks of winter to smash through so fast...
...days after Timoshenko's breakthrough, the Russians won an even bigger victory-the capture of Rzhev. It was from Rzhev, 140 miles northwest of Moscow, that the Germans began the powerful drive on Russia's capital in the autumn of 1941 which almost landed Adolf Hitler inside the Kremlin. It was the city which, above all others, Hitler had to hold if he hoped to try again...