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...instead, of gains "in the direction of Sarny." On the pre-1939 map, Sarny lay deep within Poland's Pripet Marshes, 35 miles beyond the Russian frontier. By week's end a swift-moving (150 miles in a fortnight) column of General Nikolai Vatutin's First Ukrainian Army stood almost at the city's gates. In a region of few roads, many forests and lakes, Sarny is a traffic hub. Through it passes a main north-south railway; without it, the Wehrmacht's forces in Poland would...
...traffic junction, once the headquarters of Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein's South Russia Command. A bitter, five-day attack expelled the Germans from Berdichev, battered them back toward the next and last railway from the Ukraine into Poland. To General Ivan Konev's Second Ukrainian Army fell Kirovograd, a station on a trunk railway leading westward from the far end of the Dnieper Bend...
...Gerd von Rundstedt, who attacked from the south. Manstein did a flawless job of planning, intelligence and logistics, was promoted to a field commander. In the summer of 1940, his armies broke through the Somme line in France. A year later he became an army commander in Russia when Ukrainian guerrillas killed his chief, Colonel General Eugen Ritter von Schobert. For yet another year, Manstein marched from victory to victory-Odessa, Perekop, Kerch, Sevastopol. But victory was tinged with pain: his two boys, both lieutenants, died in action. And the sands of luck were running...
What Price Audacity? The Cherkassy bridgehead was one of the Ukrainian chessboard squares on which the two armies played their complex game of blood and wits. It was a game of thrusts, traps, flanking attacks. It was a game in which the player with more patience and stamina, greater reserves, better supply lines stood the better chance...
...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...