D.N.B.
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D.N.B. reported that Rundstedt had been relieved because of ill health, a plausible enough reason, had not the same agency's correspondents, two weeks earlier, reported on his "firm, healthy stride."
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Even the German news agency D.N.B. said: "Every house in the Soviet capital is being turned into a fortress."
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D.N.B. reported in fearsome detail the strength, depth and impregnability of the Nazi's coast defenses.
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"The Russians showed the utmost tenacity," wrote Napoleon's General Armand de Caulaincourt, as any D.N.B. reporter might have this week.
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More information can be obtained from the bibliographies appended to the volumes in Longmans’ Political History, or the chapters in the Cambridge Modern History, or to the biographical articles in the D.N.B. and Ency.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
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