Word: voronezh
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...Russia's military potential-has suffered as much as the Germans intended. That the Red Army still exists, and is still strong, the headlines announce every day. Is it strong enough to turn upon and defeat the sorely wounded German Armies? Its only important counteroffensives this year (at Voronezh and Orel, at Rzhev on the Moscow front) were failures. Marshal Semion Timoshenko's limited counteroffensive above Stalingrad in six weeks has failed to advance the Red troops the bare ten miles or so which they had to cover to relieve Stalingrad...
Well to the north, fighting was renewed in the Voronezh sector, but with force insufficient to divert German pressure from Stalingrad. To the south, Krasnodar fell and the Germans swept deeper into the Caucasus...
...lose some of Nazi Germany's greatest battles,* poured military dispatches that told him his foe was all but whipped in the northern Caucasus, that Timoshenko's main strength was apparently concentrated in a vast arc before Stalingrad, that German positions along the Don at Voronezh were safe for the moment. Bock might be on the threshold of an even greater victory. He could look with satisfaction on what his Panzers, shock troops, snub-nosed caterpillar guns and rank-on-rank of efficient infantrymen had achieved. He could look with hawk-eyed anticipation at the mighty Volga, throbbing...
...Near Voronezh, 300 miles north of Rostov, the Red army lunged savagely at the Germans, striving to turn the enemy's flank and relieve pressure on the bulge toward Stalingrad. The thrust was feeble. Russia's gravest hour was at hand...
...reputedly brilliant newcomer to the High Command, he simplified Army organization, improved communications, cut tape which in any other army would be called red. Zhukov last week commanded the central front just north of Timoshenko's and probably had a lot to do with the local success near Voronezh. For reasons best known to Joseph Stalin, Zhukov has never been upped to the rank of Marshal-possibly because he took no trouble to hide his deep hatred for the Germans, his disapproval of the late Moscow-Berlin pact...