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Facing them along two-thirds of the line was the Eighth Army, now a rainbow aggregation of Britons, Canadians, New Zealanders, South Africans, Indians, Poles and Italians. At the western end of the line was the Fifth Army, predominantly American.
With complete air domination, General Sir Harold Alexander shifted his greatest strength to the eastern end of the line, struck with such force that Kesselring realized this was the main blow. By then it was too late for him to do much about it. The vengeance-seeking Poles battled their...
I took notes calmly, feeling little emotion. It was all so cold and bare. I wrote: "There are four chambers fed with these small, innocent, pale blue Zyklon crystals which give off cyanide when exposed to air. Two extra chambers for plain carbon monoxide. Maximum simultaneous capacity: 2,000." Kudriavtsev...
Last week Mediterranean Allied Air Forces headquarters in Italy disclosed that, since early August, 100 four-engined British bombers had been sent out on the 1,750-mile nonstop route to Warsaw and back, to drop weapons and ammunition by parachute to the harried patriots. The pilots had to throttle...
Poles in London were officially cheerful, unofficially gloomy. They thought they understood the Soviet game: as fast as the London Poles yielded a point, the Russians, through the Lublin Poles, would raise another. But the talks would not break down despite Mikolajczyk's flight to Britain-at least not...