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...Voyetekhov's book are several previously unreported facts, such as that a body of the defenders on the south fought their way past Balaclava and into the Crimean hills to join the partisans; that the last handful of defenders on the north dove into the sea and swam toward death when their ammunition was gone; that ruined Sevastopol had a quisling named Vasily Nikitin, appointed "Burgomaster" by the Germans. It is more illuminating to know that Voyetekhov found "No pasarán," the motto of Madrid, scrawled on a wall in Sevastopol; that "Snakes!" is an exclamation of Russian...
...Some of these regiments fought at La Coruña, Alma, Khartoum, Lucknow, Ypres and the Marne. They were in the Crimean War. They embarked for the St. Lawrence, they landed on the beaches of Gallipoli. They fought with France and the U.S., and against them...
...retreat to Tunisia was, or merely chaotic. The Russians had two chances of making it chaotic-they could drive south through Stalin to the Sea of Azov, pocketing the routed defenders of Rostov, and west from Lozovaya to the Dnieper bend at Dniepropetrovsk, cutting the Caucasian remnant and Crimean garrisons off from convenient retreat by rail or good roads...
...though arguing a case before a doubtful jury: "Hitler's back is his weakest spot-he should be struck there with all the might at our disposal." Famed Russian Correspondent Ilya Ehrenburg cabled to the London Evening Standard: "In his recent speech Churchill said that it was the Crimean campaign that helped to save Malta from the continuation of mass bombing. All our men have read this by now. . . . It is timely to tell our Allies of the scale of fighting and of the seriousness of the situation. Let every reader of these lines draw his own conclusions...
...Crimean War the British, French and Turks besieged Sevastopol for 329 days before the city fell. Last week, eight months after the Germans first approached Sevastopol, 23 days after Colonel General Fritz Erich von Manstein began his final assault, Berlin announced: "Sevastopol has fallen, over the bastion, city and harbor German and Rumanian war flags are flying." It was almost true. For two more days the killing went on. Under the wings of the Luftwaffe, from the city's bombed and blazing docks, the Russian Black Sea Fleet still rescued troops, commanders, wounded. In the streets, rear guards fought...