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...Liberation" was coming from Soviet Russia. There was not too much reason to expect that the call can be heeded by nine million Czechoslovaks who, in chains and humiliation, are forced to produce huge quantities of weapons for their German masters. There was some doubt whether Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov's forces will be, unequivocally, an army of liberation. But all the way from London to Russia, throughout the human mass of tension and torture that is Europe, there is little doubt that Czechoslovakia's experience with liberation will answer the one fundamental question: What is victory...
...Soviet-Manchukuoan border in 1938, Voronov's guns took the measure of Japan's artillery, neatly shaved off a few hilltops, complete with Japanese pillboxes. In 1939, the Red Army again fought the Japanese, on the border of Outer Mongolia, though this was primarily Georgy Zhukov's tank show. In 1940, Voronov came against Finland's famed Mannerheim Line...
...knew the use of every armed branch; he knew that teamwork produced victory. The teammates were all his intimate friends-young Novikov, now Chief Marshal of Aviation, Zhukov, Marshal Semion Timoshenko...
Marshal Georgy Zhukov's men battled in the streets of Tarnopol (see map). This 400-year-old town is a gateway to the great fortress of Lwow; the key to the fate of the German armies in the Ukraine. To hold it, the Germans rushed in huge reinforcements (a Red scouting plane saw a column of 400 tanks), emplaced guns on a hill dominating the town, fought for every house...
...Zhukov's greatest tactical gain was his blow at Nazi communications. He cut the Odessa-Lwów railroad. Three German armies still in the Ukraine had now lost their last rail line of escape, would have to retreat along the muddy country roads of Bessarabia and the Ukraine, or from the Black Sea's battered ports. Manstein apparently had waited too long to pull...