Word: vistula
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From Moscow last week came a description of Warsaw, as seen by a recent visitor to the Praga (east) side of the Vistula, where the Red Army's advance halted more than three months...
Last week neither the Russians nor the Germans said anything about some thing happening or about to happen on the Warsaw-Vistula front. The Germans alone told of something happening in the Latvian pocket above Riga. Berlin said the Red Army had "sacrificed tens of thousands of men" to gain one penetration...
...Caucasus oilfields, was also beginning to look a little different to many Americans in the dawn light of victory-or perhaps more like his pre-1941 self. After dealing Hitler one of his two heaviest defeats of the year, Stalin's central armies had stopped on the Vistula, while those on the flanks pursued secondary aims. Then followed the ill-timed martyrdom of General Bor and his heroic partisans in Warsaw; the Moscow-sponsored Government at Lublin; the methodical destruction of the London Polish Government. At Dumbarton Oaks, Russia's diplomats insisted that, in the framework of postwar...
...Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, the classic Junker who is generally regarded as Germany's ablest soldier, Field Marshal Walter Model was commanding in the north, and General Hermann Balck in the south. Model was personally decorated by Hitler last summer for stopping the Russians at the Vistula. Balck had shown defensive ability in the Ukraine, and after the Allied invasion of southern France he succeeded in bringing the remnants of his Panzer corps back to Germany. Now, wherever possible, Model and Balck are sacrificing substandard troops to save good ones. At sensitive spots they still counterattack with...
...much longer will they have to fight? How far must they go before the Nazis cry quits? There are many imponderables, such as the weight and power of the expected Russian offensive on the East Prussia-Vistula front, which cannot fail to affect German resistance in the west. Ike Eisenhower said last week that he was optimistic, but added: "I hope to prevent myself from becoming complacent." If anyone had asked Omar Bradley, he would probably have answered with one of the homespun phrases he utters so often: "The proof of the pudding is in the eating...