Word: maneuverability
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Men & Methods. In recent years General Gamelin had walked attentively, at the brisk half-trot he learned in the Chasseurs, over almost every square mile of the terrain to which Germany now brought the war. He knew minutely its potentialities for defense by war of position-the prevailing school of...
There was little left of what had been a tidy fishing village. All around the fjord's beachhead, where quays, warehouses, railroad station, freight sidings used to be, now lay a charred, twisted, upheaved destruction left by repeated showers of high explosive and incendiary bombs. As the German advance...
Take something immensely more complex than an electron: a living cell. When the cell is "ready" to divide, the centrosome separates and moves to opposite sides, the chromosomes line up in the middle and then split evenly; then some thing nips in the sides of the cell to a wasp...
Up the valley of the Po, through Italy's richest industrial area, swept in mid-August a proud Italian Army, bent on repulsing an imaginary "Red" (French) invasion. Suddenly, mysteriously, the maneuver ended. As suddenly, Hitler invaded Poland, the Allies declared war. Il Duce disappeared from public view. It...
Up Ciano. After the Po maneuver's fiasco, Il Duce cleaned house. As his first step, out went his Under Secretaries for War and Air, Alberto Pariani and Giuseppe Valle, because they had concealed the true state of Italy's war machine from their boss. Out went violently...