BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Power on the Flanks

Still another German nightmare was in the process of becoming a horrible reality. Villages on German soil were burning under Russian cannon fire and Stormoviks were ranging up & down the main roads of East Prussia. A German news agency announced prematurely that the Red Army had rolled over the border onto German territory. But the Russians were in no hurry to make that claim; it would come soon enough.

All along the 800-mile main front, from the gulf of Finland to the Carpathian passes, the Red Army was busy at methodical, swift grinding of German strength. If its forward...

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