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From: milano!fugate@roma.sw.mcc.com (Bryan Fugate)
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Subject: Re: Low Tech Warfare (1 of 5)
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Date: 15 Dec 89 03:09:47 GMT
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From: milano!fugate@roma.sw.mcc.com (Bryan Fugate)

> >It would be interesting to compile  a  list of battles that  were won by
> >one side doing  something the  other thought  was physically impossible.

Zhukov's counteroffensive at the gates of Moscow on December 6, 1941
would have to rank as one of the world's greatest surprises.  The
winter conditions made it difficult for the Germans to conceive that
such an event was possible.  It did have a profound effect on the
course of the war.