World Battlefronts: GLOBAL COMBAT

A year ago these lines curving across the hemispheres would have looked like wishful thinking. About a year ago every Allied line of attack seemed to be a line drawn in sand, to be erased by the next Axis tide. Russia's effort to attack at Kharkov had been wiped out and the Nazi armies flowed around Stalingrad. Rommel had rolled the British back from Bengasi and was beating against the gates of El Alamein. On the other side of the world the U.S. fought frantically to keep a toe hold on a 90-mile-long island...

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