Word: zhukov
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...different from the crowd is a laudable ambition, but not at the expense of a fact. Every publication in the world, including Pravda, Izvestia and Red Star, calls the commander of the First White Russian Army Marshal Grigori Zhukov. TIME alone insists on Georgi...
...Strategy. To a disturbing degree, they succeeded in their strategy of separate surrender. True, a Russian signed the first general surrender at Reims; British and U.S. officers signed the second in Berlin (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). But Reims was General Eisenhower's show. Berlin was Marshal Zhukov...
Berlin's end came two years and four months after the salvation of Stalingrad. It came 16 days after the armies of Marshals Georgi K. Zhukov and Ivan S. Konev lunged for the Nazi capital, twelve days after they reached its streets. The date was May 2 and the time was 3 p.m.-Moscow time...
...credit for the successful field conduct of Russia's part in the war presumably rests chiefly on Voroshilov and Zhukov. In the west the credit belongs chiefly to the Combined Chiefs of Staff and to their field commanders Eisenhower, Montgomery...
...Zhukov seemed to be marked for more history. Stalin's politically reliable, pious Communist confidant, he might now be the instrument for the delicate tasks of governing a beaten Germany and a destroyed Japanese army...