"This is said in all respect sir," Linda P. continued, "and with the permission of your wives. Any chance you could take it with me?"
Samuel stared at her for several seconds. "I THINK so," he answered. "Let me see if the enemy will allow it. By any chance have you mentioned to Mr. Montague's aide that you intended to make this request?"
"Why yes," Linda P. answered, "when I was explaining the diagrams I had stolen to her."
Samuel nodded. He got the leave and by the time he got back to duty he needed another one! "That woman's husband deserves a medal!" he remarked to one of his officers. "I thought my wives were passionate!"
The other officer laughed. The war dragged on. Samuel knew the key to victory was the north. He was bogged down here in the sough. He requested permission to go north and scout the situation there. Headquarters finally agreed. He landed in Russia and was greeted by an old friend.
Kosinoff nearly broke his back with a bear hug. "Things will go better now," he announced, "now you are here. We give The Coms hell, yes?" We make them wish they had stayed loyal to Mother Russia!"
"We'll give it a good try!" Samuel answered."
It only took a little while to realize the key to victory was the weather. The only time they could win would be in the winter, and he began to plan a campaign such as never had been seen. Kosinoff studied each proposal. "Da! Da!" he would say. "Good! We come in behind the storms, before they can dig out, be there while their equipment and bunkers are still buried. Good! Good! We will sweep over them like the great storms of winter."
Samuel's plans were accepted but there was a problem that had to be solved first, and those to the south would have to solve it. The enemy was using The Republic's prisoners of war as human shields, and the conditions in their camps were becoming deplorable. Samuel wanted to go and help. But he was too busy bringing his troops into position, gathering all the equipment they would need. Extensive winter operations in Russia were no afternoon snowmobile ride. Little mistakes could cost hundreds of thousands of lives, and Samuel would not make such mistakes.
His troops would have everything they needed to fight, and survive under the worst conditions. They wouldn't end up like Napoleon's or, Hitler's men, frozen to death in the snow.
The rescue operations were a complete success! The rescuers even removed hundreds of thousands of the enemy's non combatants, seriously weakening his labor force. Now free to act, Samuel swept east and south. With every winter storm his relentless troops gobbled up territory. With the coming of spring almost all of Russia was back in the free people's hands. Everyone knew it was just about over.

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