sentences:  Also, a significant part of Second Army were reservists (officers and enlisted men alike) who were promised a "quick victory", and became demoralized as their prospects for getting home soon worsened.In fall 1942, the Hungarian Second Army was deployed to protect the Italian Eighth Army's northern flank, between Novaya Pokrovka on the Don River and Rossosh, while German Sixth Army attacked Stalingrad.As winter set in, and with the worsening German situation around Stalingrad, Second Army's transportation collapsed and failed to supply even the basics (food, winter clothing, heating fuel, building materials) for the front-line units.