Word: zhukov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zhukov had doubtless planned much of the offensive's detail-he is one of the Red Army's most brilliant strategists. Stalin has fullest confidence in him. Zhukov had been his chief of staff, in charge of Moscow's defense, during the first awful months of the Wehrmacht's invasion. He had been the shaper and adviser of the Stalingrad counteroffensive, engineer of the Red Army's sweep through the Ukraine...
Voice of Stalin. A devout Communist, 50-year-old Zhukov has been Stalin's political confidant, now to be entrusted with Berlin and the delicate business of speaking for Stalin in whatever Allied councils might govern a beaten Germany...
Broad-faced, wide-mouthed Marshal Zhukov was called to Moscow when the Red Army's summer offensive at Warsaw began to slow. Perhaps even then he and Stalin foresaw the months of work ahead of the huge offensive-the marshaling of overwhelming superiority in men & machines, the strategic moves to keep the Germans busy in the Balkans...
...Zhukov's field command of the First Ukrainian Army was then taken over by Marshal Ivan Konev. Now it is the left arm of the offensive, striking at Silesia. When Zhukov returned to the field, he took over from tall (6 ft. 4 in.) Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, who moved to command the Second White Russian Army, now the right arm of assault aimed at lopping off East Prussia...
...defense was in the hands of Colonel General Heinz Guderian (TIME, Aug. 7). He had been made commander in chief of the eastern front in anticipation of the Russian blow. Guderian must have realized that at best he could hope only to delay such a tide of power as Zhukov could unloose. The Russians heard reports that Guderian had threatened to resign unless he was permitted to withdraw westward to a line he believed would stop Zhukov: from Danzig through Poznań to Breslau...