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...miraculous speed with which the Red Army had taken Warsaw was merely an incident in the Russians' massive sweeps through western Poland. But Warsaw had been the prize of a major battle, a major event of the war. Marshal Georgy Zhukov's liberators did not pause long. But as they marched through, they could see the price of war (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Over the Rivers. The main battle for Warsaw had not been fought among its ruins, but for miles around them. Zhukov forced a crossing of the unfrozen Vistula 57 miles south of the city, widened his bridgehead and then struck with the full weight of his armor to carve out a breakthrough. Zhukov's tanks fought and won two battles as they sped northward to the Warsaw-Lódź highway. Eighteen miles north of the city another Russian force made its crossings, struck through to join the main column on the highway. Warsaw was taken from...
...Zhukov's speed had never been matched by the Germans in their blitziest days. Off the roads, his route was over swamps and through forests. It was a terrain for Cossack cavalry to flush out enemy resistance left by the tanks. The Cossacks, in the style of their forebears, staged awesome attacks. One detachment caught almost an entire company of Germans, galloped among them with sabers slashing...
...Zhukov's forces, heading straight for Poznan, had already covered about half the distance from Warsaw to the defense line the Germans have built along their 1939 border. Konev's army was already on German soil in Silesia, was within 28 miles of Breslau and pressed close upon Oppeln, both on the Oder and key points in the Reich's second most important , coal and steel area. Crossings there would set up a flank for future development of a strike to the inner Reich...
...synchronize the three main attacks, Marshal Stalin had shuffled his armies' commands. To his deputy commander in chief, stocky, aggressive Marshal Zhukov, he had given the Red Army's elite troops, the First White Russian Army. Zhukov was Stalin's conqueror-designate, his job to strike through from Warsaw to Poznań, thence to Germany's capital...