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The checking will also cover the possibilities for long distance forced marches; management and interaction during the columns' movement at different times of day and in real environments; comprehensive support and hidden deployment in specified areas; and the ability to fully prepare for execution of the next combat mission.
Combat readiness of Azerbaijani armed forces being checked
transfers, its forced marches and the systematic extermination of
Skipping Your Funeral
The descriptions of forced marches, AK-47 training and drug-fuelled shoot-outs with rival private armies leave little to the imagination, but the subject is handled in a sensitive and perceptive way, with excellent characterization and good plot lines.
Malone, Geoffre: Dead Boys' Club
In the last weeks of World War II, concentration camp prisoners were moved within Nazi-occupied territory, some in trains, others in forced marches. Blatman (history, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) investigates the nature of these marches.
The death marches; the final phase of Nazi genocide
He was transferred to various other camps and was among those compelled to make the now notorious long-distance forced marches, eventually returning to a camp in the Hanover area, from which he was freed by the advance of the famous "Desert Rats."
REUNION OF 4 BROTHERS
I have lately come across accounts of forced marches even after Germany surrendered.
HORROR OF POW FORCED MARCHES; FAMILY TREE
And amidst the horrors of the war and its aftermath, both the Armenians and Christians are forced to leave the village and go on forced marches to distant places so Turkey can be for the Muslims only.
Birds Without Wings
Aside from its extra-ordinary aesthetic accomplishment, this is a riveting page-turner--leaping right into bloody firefights and foolish command decisions, forced marches and catastrophic defeats.
War Trash

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