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...Colonel General Fedor Tolbnkhin, captor of Taganrog. A huge man with a heavy, calm, intelligent face, he is the septet's least-known member. One of five army chiefs who helped to trap Friedrich von Paulus, Tolbukhin this year jumped two grades within four months. Equally adept in the use of cavalry and tanks, he used both last month to punch holes in the German defenses in the south. Last week he stage-managed a "little Stalin-grad" at Taganrog...
Hess: "You're trying to trap...
...From the steadily widening Ukrainian wedge, to Kiev; or (more likely) towards the lower Dnieper (the latter drive would trap 300,000 Germans in the pocket between the Donets and the Sea of Azov...
...watched, half afraid that our men would fall into a trap. But down there below us was a crafty young officer. We could see him detach himself with three soldiers from the rest of the men and go forward in a low crouch, shifting from side to side, as if they were bloodhounds sniffing a trail. Suddenly 50 yards from the trench the officer's hand flew out by his side and urgently motioned his men to lie down. Then the officer crawled forward through the bare wheat and around small rocks...
...Napoleon-cultist, a frenzied romantic. After the death of her father, Eugenie and her mother wintered in Paris, where the new emperor, Louis Napoleon, fell passionately in love with her. But her marriage (in 1853) was no love match; she was infatuated by a symbol, and managed to trap...