Word: volga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year whose laurels were reserved primarily for fighting men. Rommel, who drove to within 70 miles of Alexandria before he was stopped by the British, established himself as one of the great virtuosos among field commanders. Bock directed a brilliant campaign which reached the west bank of the Volga, but the final spark that would have meant victory...
...first stages, the third offensive was in effect an extension of the drive to relieve Stalingrad. But as the Russian thrust widened, it also became an effort to destroy the Germans' entire system of communications and supply in the Ukraine, to endanger Axis forces both in the Don-Volga area and in the Caucasus. The great object of the Red Army's winter strategy was now clear: to slice up the Germans' winter lines, keep the Wehrmacht on the defensive from Rzhev to the Caucasus...
...weeks the Red Army had not appreciably advanced on either the central front or the Don-Volga front. This could mean one of three things: 1) the offensives were stalled; 2) the Russians were slowly reducing German strong points and mopping up German pockets; 3) the Red Army was preparing new attacks...
...encirclements near Stalingrad were mutual: a great German army was hemmed between the Don and the Volga, but the Russian forces in their wedges were also between German armies. Both sides depended on corridors for overland supply...
Such an offensive, if successful, would: 1) complete the entrapment of the Axis armies in the Don-Volga area; 2) bar the Germans' way of retreat to their last summer's line (Taganrog-Kharkov-Kursk-Orel) ; 3) finally doom the halting German drive in the Caucasus, perhaps cut off the Caucasian armies' last line of supply and retreat through the Crimea; 4) force the Germans to draw further on their dwindling reserves...