‘Battered bastards of Kharkiv’ — could this become Ukraine’s Bastogne?
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USA TODAY - For more and to sign up click here Jonathan Sweet and Mark Toth, Opinion Contributors In December 1944, the small town of Bastogne was situated at a strategic crossroad in southeastern Belgium in the Ardennes Forest bordering Luxembourg. Its capture was imperative to the success of a German offensive, code-named “Wacht am Rhein” — or in English, the “Watch on the Rhine.” Adolf Hitler’s objective was…
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