Word: vistula
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South of Warsaw, Marshal Rokossovsky's armies swarmed to the Vistula, cleared a 60-mile stretch of the east bank, paused while their artillery poured hell into the German positions on the other side. Here the river was 600 feet wide, but no river had held up the Red engineers very long...
...Ribbentrop explained that the Russians would probably stop somewhere between the Vistula and the Oder, permitting Germany to hold a thin line, reinforce the West and get credit among a fairly large number of 'sensible people' in Britain and the U.S. for keeping the Russians out of Central Europe. Determination would pull Germany through as the dominant power in Central Europe, which the English-speaking Allies would have to support and arm against might of Russia...
...confused with the Polish Bug which empties into the Vistula...
...Military Academy, Russia's Staff School; Chief of Staff. He planned the invasion of eastern Poland in 1939; he beat Finland; he timed the great counterblow from Moscow in December. He has found time to write many heavy tomes, the greatest of which are The Cavalry, On the Vistula and the three-volume Brain of the Army...
...arithmetics of distance and time were not cheering either. After two weeks in Poland, the Germans had crossed the Vistula and were within seven days of victory. After two weeks in the Lowlands, they had reached the sea, were about to shove the British into it at Dunkirk. After two weeks in the Balkans they had taken Belgrade and put the British to rout. But after traveling 250 miles in the first Russian week and 100 in the second, the Germans had not done much more than push the Russians behind their old borders. After two bitter weeks they...