Word: vistula
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...toward richer industrial prizes in Czechoslovakia. But his grip on the Oder was a strategic threat. Linked with Zhukov's advance, it could be forged into the familiar pattern of Red Army bridgeheads established in force far from the ultimate objective. Thus the Sandomierz grip on the upper Vistula had been the springboard for the present offensive. Thus the crossing of the Danube far south in Yugoslavia had brought the toppling of Budapest. So the Oder-the last wide ditch before Berlin-might be enveloped in preparation for Zhukov's frontal assault...
Over the Rivers. The main battle for Warsaw had not been fought among its ruins, but for miles around them. Zhukov forced a crossing of the unfrozen Vistula 57 miles south of the city, widened his bridgehead and then struck with the full weight of his armor to carve out a breakthrough. Zhukov's tanks fought and won two battles as they sped northward to the Warsaw-Lódź highway. Eighteen miles north of the city another Russian force made its crossings, struck through to join the main column on the highway. Warsaw was taken from...
...Allied attempt to flank the Westwall at Arnhem had failed. Germany's main eastern battlefront, along the Vistula River, was relatively quiet. Slowly, Eisenhower's margin of superiority in the west was worn down in frontal attacks against formidable defenses. V-E day was set back to 1944's end-then to May 1945. It was clear that the western Allies would need a lot more muscle to beat down their rugged, obdurate and resourceful...
Friday's dawn on the rolling plain of south Poland was like many of the month before-a grey blending of snowy night with snowy day. On their side of the line west of the Vistula, the Germans huddled in their trenches and guessed that this Friday would be just another day of wary waiting. No planes would fly. The earth was still soft and sticky...
...Russians had pierced 40 miles, had spread their break to a width of 65 miles. They had taken their first prize: Kielce (pop. 58,000), a hub of roads and railways 20 miles west of the point where Konev stopped last August after he had bloodily won his Vistula bridgehead...