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...Nazi-occupied country." (The Swiss paid $1,000,000 a day for full mobilization in the first year and a half of the war, remain partially mobilized today, with reserves ready on an hour's notice. If invaded, they are ready to destroy their great Alpine railroad tunnels as part of a scorched-earth plan...
...troops knew his plans. Montgomery made sure that every man down to the last blue-eyed boy private understood his intentions. In his Order of the Day he declared: "When I assumed command of the Eighth Army I said that the mandate was to destroy Rommel and his army, and that it would be done as soon as we were ready. We are ready now. The battle which is now about to begin will be one of the decisive battles of history. It will be the turning point...
Pilgrim's Progress. He rode across the bloody sands of Egypt. He rolled through Matrûh, where Rommel's overturned guns and tanks lay like beetles on their backs in the African sun. He did not destroy Rommel there. Rommel with the fleeing fraction of his army escaped through Hellfire Pass, where a few New Zealanders routed his rear guard...
...destroyed the Rommel myth. Crowed the Eighth Army's official magazine: "[Rommel] lost his old dash, was badly rattled, and could devise no plan. The legend of the invincible Afrika Korps and Panzer forces has been shattered." But Montgomery did not destroy Rommel, as in his supreme confidence he had announced three months ago he was about to do. Rommel probably saved some 63,000 of his soldiers. In Tunisia, Rommel can expect some surcease behind the deep, scattered pillbox defenses of the Mareth Line. There is little chance that the Allies can prevent his making a junction with...
...offensives of history.* From Leningrad to the Black Sea, along a 1,500-mile front (see map), the Red Army was staging one operation with one purpose: to break the German hold upon Russia at every point where the Wehrmacht had anchored its lines, then to smash into and destroy the rear systems of communication and supply, without which the Germans cannot recover in the spring...