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Hard-driving Vatutin himself was not there. Moscow said he was sick. But his place was taken by one of the world's topmost field generals-stocky, aggressive Marshal Georgy Zhukov, fresh from his victory at Korsun, where ten Nazi divisions met their end last month...
Down Thrust. Instead of pressing the dagger westward, into old Poland, Zhukov turned the point south. Twelve German divisions-four of them armored-were swept aside, a 120-mile gap was torn open, gains of 35 miles were made by the third morning. Early this week Zhukov's men stood only 20 miles from the key German base of Tarnopol, in prewar Poland; only 30 miles from Rumania's border...
Victory's Fruits. Soviet generals, headed by famed Marshal Georgy Zhukov, Stalin's deputy, issued an ultimatum: "We guarantee life and safety to all ... who cease resistance [within 24 hours]. . . . All... who surrender . .. will be immediately supplied with food...
...East before the war. When Hitler struck, Konev was in the vital Gomel sector, fighting stubbornly for each foot of the muddy terrain. In the battle for Moscow, he held the southern anchor of the defense line, soundly drubbed the renowned Nazi tankman, Colonel General Heinz Guderian. Marshal Zhukov once said of him: "Let Konev play his own game under his own rules, and no German will ever get the better of him." Said Konev to his officers: "Make up your mind what the enemy expects you to do and then do the opposite." Konev is a member...
...Leaders. The battle wisdom on which this now depends must come from the heads of Russia's leaders. Part of it must come from the Soviet Supreme Command (Marshals Stalin, Shaposhnikov, Zhukov, Voroshilov, Vasilevsky, Voronov, Novikov). Part of it must come from the leaders who have actually wrought Russia's victories in the field...