Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.World War: EASTERN THEATER: Odessa Pocket
During the first plunge forward there had been the great Battle of Bialystok-Minsk; during the second phase, the great Battle of Smolensk. Last week the great Battle of the Ukraine raged.
The Battle of the Ukraine was a gigantic flanking operation with the Germans going deep into the stretch between the Bug and Dnieper Rivers, then swinging south to encircle the Russians at the Black Sea ports. Frontally the German gains eastward were out of all linear proportion to the great flanking sweeps which made the gains possible. A great break-through near Uman, 120 miles south of Kiev, paved the...
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