In the south the Germans threw their greatest effort against a little swampy neck of land only four miles wide. They were determined to crack the Perekop Isthmus and overrun the Crimean Peninsula, no matter what the cost.
They did it, but the cost was high.
The Russians had choked the narrow isthmus with spots of defense as tightly as the Thousand Islands choke the St. Lawrence River. There was not much room for the channels of attack to flow through; crossfire covered every channel.
But the attackers carried on a systematic nine-day aerial and artillery bombardment so concentrated that no defense in the...
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