Victory in Defeat the Agony of Warsaw And the Russian Retreat
Victory in Defeat the Agony of Warsaw And the Russian Retreat
Stanley Washburn
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It was known that the Russians had checked the enemy at Wyszkow and thrown them back ten miles. At once the Przasnys campaign in March was recalled when the Germans had been thrown back in the full tide of their advance, and once again one heard people saying that the crisis was passed and that Warsaw would yet 89 VICTORY IN DEFEAT weather the storm. In the meantime the roar of guns from the south, which had been echoing through the streets, began to die away, and it was known that a German adv...ance on the Thirty-sixth Corps south of the city had been hurled back with heavy losses. Similar feelers on the Blonie line were known to have come to abrupt and untimely ends for the Germans. Warsaw picked up hope again — a hope that soared when it became known that sanitary trains that had been sent away were coming back, and the flow of transport going east had ceased and some of it had actually started back. " Besides, " one was told, " the staff of the Second Army is still in town. " Personally I believed that the gravest danger was passed, for it seemed incredible that the Germans could keep developing reinforcements in suffi- cient volume to keep up the fury of their attacks much longer.
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