4/8: The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 Hardcover – August 27, 2024 by Nick Lloyd (Author)
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🗓️ 25 October 2024
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by Nick Lloyd (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Eastern-Front-History-Great-1914-1918/dp/1324092718
"[A] superb history…so much has been forgotten, including the course of the war in the east across multiple theaters of operation and the strategies pursued by both sides. It is all this and more that Mr. Lloyd has resurrected in compelling detail." ―Economist
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| 0:33.0 | Modern Warfare at King's College London, the author of the Eastern Front, |
| 0:38.0 | a history of the Great War 1914 to 1918. |
| 0:42.0 | We last left the Russians not doing very well against a combination of Germany |
| 0:46.8 | and Austria-Hungary Empire, Conrad, and the Germans led by Inenburg and Ludendorf, although their overall |
| 0:55.8 | commander is Falconheim. |
| 0:58.3 | And Falconheim is not generous, but they make successes so much that the Russians retreat. |
| 1:04.0 | That is what Russia knows to do when it's defeated is to give up position |
| 1:10.0 | and then draw the enemy in, knowing their supply lines will weaken them eventually. |
| 1:15.8 | The Russians retreat from May to September of 15, and then they figure they've retreated |
| 1:20.8 | enough. |
| 1:21.8 | But what's important here is that SAR, |
| 1:24.9 | that SAR taking command around this time, |
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