Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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BERLIN--Military spokesmen intimated tonight that German and Finish troops have undertaken a far northern drive from the Salla area, 90 miles from the northwest corner of the While Sea, in an attempt to cut Russia's communications with the port of Murmansk and the whole Kila Peninsula...
...south the Germans threw their greatest effort against a little swampy neck of land only four miles wide. They were determined to crack the Perekop Isthmus and overrun the Crimean Peninsula, no matter what the cost...
Eastward their objective was Kerch, at the extremity of the peninsula-a likely spot from which to bomb, and perhaps from which to invade, the Caucasus...
...plan is to wait until spring to finish the Russian job, last week's action on the Russian front did not betray it. Hitler's armies had all the appearances of an army breaking its neck for the sake of quick victory. It stormed the Crimean Peninsula, hurled itself against Moscow's defenses, cleaned up industrial Kharkov, paused seemingly to gather its coils for a deadly new strike at Rostov-on-Don. These might be the final autumn battles...
This pleasant boring life might have continued but for Italy's Risorgimento. Everywhere patriotic Italians, with deathless heroism and the blessings of English liberals, were conspiring to upset the rudiments of order which Austria had almost succeeded in imposing on parts of the Peninsula. Teresa Guiccioli's father and brother, the Gambas, were patriots and revolutionists. Encouraged by them, Byron joined the Carbonari...