General headquarters of the Red Central Front were in a little log cabin last week. Marshal Semion Timoshenko, whose job is to keep the Germans away from Moscow, sat behind a desk covered with maps and reports. Beside the papers were several sharpened crayons, a box of cigarets. There was only one thing on the cabin's bleak walls: a barometer.
As he worked, Marshal Timoshenko often looked at the barometer. He knew the unpredictability and the importance of Russian weather.
Mud up North. On the Leningrad Front the Germans pressed hard, in a hurry clean things up before mud cluttered things...