Word: volga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like the map of the middle Mediterranean which identified Lord Gort as Governor of Malta). Sometimes it is a flag or a national emblem. Sometimes it is a realistic scene (like the charging tanks behind Britain's General Montgomery) or an allegorical scene (like the Volga running red behind Field Marshal Bock, attacker of Stalingrad). When we put "Hangman" Heydrich on the cover, we planned to put just one noose in the background, but the artist had so much fun drawing its intricacies that he kept right on tying knots until there were ropes enough for 22 executions...
...Germans advanced, Moatsie and the other correspondents were evacuated to Kuibyshev. She made Correspondent Quentin Reynolds sweep the floor of her compartment. But things were no better in Kuibyshev itself. The plumbing was terrible. Moatsie shampooed her hair, and the Iranian Ambassador had his servant fetch water from the Volga to rinse it. Moatsie gave in. For months she had struggled against the sex prejudice that had tried to get her out of Moscow. Now, she exclaimed to the press bureau chief: "Do you think I am crazy enough to stay on in a place where there...
Over the Donets. Save only at Stalingrad, the Germans have not made a determined stand in south Russia or fought lengthy delaying actions since they failed to relieve the forces on the Volga...
...Russians reveal how nearly the German Sixth Army had come to capturing Stalingrad. In September the Germans actually occupied the central part of the city. Concentrating their power in the industrial districts, they then stormed into the Stalingrad tank factory, but failed to drive on to the Volga. Often the opposing lines were only 15 yards apart. Most of the fighting was done with hand grenades, one Russian division using more than 100,000 in a single month's fighting...
...Army headquarters was moved five times. At one stage the Russian position seemed so hopeless that Lieut. General Vassili Chuikov, who commanded the Sixty-Second Army under Colonel General Konstantin Rokossovsky, ordered his chief of staff to cross to the east bank of the Volga. His chief refused and said: "We will win or die together...