Word: vistula
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Thus after six weeks of buildup, Marshal Rokossovsky (of Polish descent), who almost reached Warsaw in August, began to close in. The famed Russian artillery, massed on the east bank of the Vistula, began pounding the Germans on the 135-ft. bluff in Warsaw-point blank, 500 yards across the river...
...most of Warsaw to rubble. Now at last, Russian warplanes came over the city dropping food and ammunition to the patriots at far less cost and risk than the R.A.F., which previously did it from bases over 800 miles away. But whether the Russians would try to cross the Vistula and storm the bluffs held by the Germans was still uncertain. The Russians have a more economic technique of enveloping such cities, demonstrated at Kiev. Last week they already had a bridgehead across the Vistula 25 miles southeast of Warsaw, from which the southern arm of a pincers could...
...Russian explosion in June and July had driven the last German from Russian soil, ended the Battle of Russia, whittled down the German armies in the east. It had pushed the German remnants back to the upper Vistula, to a line in front of Warsaw and East Prussia before giving them a chance to regain their balance. Now this line, which the Germans bragged they had stabilized, was regarded by the Reds as the starting line for their autumn offensive in the Battle of Germany. They were bringing up new, massive equipment with which they intended...
...threat was triple: Chernyakhovsky's forces aimed at the East Prussian border; Rokossovsky's and Zakharov's forces aimed directly west toward Berlin, but could swing north to envelop East Prussia, or north and south to envelop Warsaw; Konev's huge bridgehead on the upper Vistula pointed at Cracow and German Silesia. Most of the surface activity last week was in the Balkans, but the great drive had passed from the explosive to the mopping-up stage. The noises from Berlin betrayed well-grounded anxiety about the sectors north of the Carpathians, the direct menace...
...line twitched along its length, most notably along the Narew River (a tributary to the Vistula) north of Warsaw. Moscow announced that the Red armies had blasted their way to the river, saluted the victory with twelve salvos from 124 guns, then let silence fall. But the Germans announced that the Reds had concentrated 30 divisions-more than 300,000 men-on the banks of the Narew, that they had begun to cross to the west bank...