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The Dawn of Liberation

Winston S. Churchill

The King entertains the Dominion Prime Ministers at Buckingham Palace. (Left to right) The Right Hon. Peter Fraser; the Right Hon. John Curtin; the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill; The King; the Right Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King; Field Marshal the Right Hon. J. C. Smuts

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The Dawn of Liberation
First published 1945. Speeches Estate of Winston S. Churchill
Cover art to the electronic edition copyright 2013 by RosettaBooks, LLC.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.

Image of Winston Churchill in Caen after liberation reproduced by permission of Curtis Brown, London, on behalf of The Broadwater Collection, an archive of photographs owned by the Churchill family and held at the Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge.

Electronic edition published 2013 by RosettaBooks, LLC, New York.
Cover jacket design by Alexia Garaventa
ISBN e-Pub edition: 9780795329494

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A S PEECH TO THE H OUSE OF C OMMONS ON THE P ROGRESS OF THE W AR
F EBRUARY 22, 1944

January 1.	Victorious Russian troops made further advances to the Polish frontier. R.A.F. dropped a thousand tons of bombs on Berlin in the ninth major assault in six weeks.
January 3.	General Montgomery arrived in Britain to take up his appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the armies under General Eisenhower. R.A.F. made another thousand-tons attack on Berlin.
January 6.	Russians captured Kokitno, 15 miles inside Polish border. It was revealed that Britain was using a jet-propelled fighter aeroplane, invented by Group-Captain Whittle.
January 7.	Russians launched new offensive, surrounded Kirovograd, and routed five German divisions.
January 9.	Fifth Army troops captured San Vittore on the road to Rome.
January 11.	Russians established a 40-miles front in Poland and advanced on Kovno. Americans made big daylight air-raid on Germany, destroying 152 enemy fighters for the loss of 60 bombers and five fighters.
January 12.	Russians captured Sarny, first big town in Poland to fall into their hands.
January 14.	Mozyr and Kalinkovichi were captured by the Russians.
January 16.	Announced that Mr. Churchill had met General de Gaulle at Marrakesh.
January 17.	Germans strengthened their resistance to the Russian offensive on the railway running from Novo-Sokolniki to Leningrad. Fifth Army troops advanced on Rome and reached the River Rapido.
January 18.	Russians launched a new offensive on the Leningrad front. Mr. Churchill arrived in London fully recovered from his illness.
January 19.	Russian troops pressing on in the new Leningrad offensive captured many 16-in. guns which had been bombarding the city for months.
January 20.	R.A.F. dropped 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin, the citys heaviest raid of the war.
January 21.	In retaliation for Berlin raid the German air force attacked London and S.E. England in strength.
January 22.	Allied troops with sea and air support landed at Anzio south of Rome, taking the Germans by surprise.
January 23.	Fifth Army troops penetrated several miles inland following the landings south of Rome. Russian offensive in the Leningrad region developed into a general attack on a 50-miles front.
January 24.	Fifth Army advanced another four miles inland and captured Nettuno.
January 25.	Forward troops from the landing south of Rome reached the Appian Way.
January 27.	Russians captured Tosno on the Leningrad-Moscow railway. Troops of the Hermann Gring Panzer Division were repulsed by the Fifth Army near Littoria.
January 29.	Russians captured Novo Sokolniki, Chudovo and Smyela. U.S. bombers dropped more than 1,800 tons of bombs in daylight raid on Frankfort.
January 31.	Fifth Army launched offensive from the Nettuno-Anzio bridgehead.
February 1.	U.S. forces, it was announced, had landed on the Marshall Islands, the biggest Pacific operation so far. Russians crossed the Estonian frontier.
February 2.	Fifth Army troops broke through the Gustav Line in Italy.
February 3.	Russians announced their greatest victory since Stalingradencircling of 100,000 Germans west of the Middle Dnieper.
February 5.	British troops in the Anzio beachhead held off heavy counter-offensive.
February 6.	Russians broke through German defences on the Lower Dnieper and routed seven enemy divisions.
February 7.	Enemy forces assembled for a major attack on the Anzio beachhead were dispersed by artillery fire.
February 8.	Russians captured Nikopol.
February 9.	Germans announced that a general attack had been launched against the Anzio beachhead. Fifth Army encountered bitter fighting in Cassino.
February 11.	Heavy bombers called in to smash German counter-attack on Anzio beachhead.
February 12.	It was announced that reports from General Wilson and General Alexander expressed confidence that the battle for Rome would be won.
February 15.	R.A.F. made its biggest attack so far on Berlin, dropping well over

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