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The German Spring Offensive March 1918

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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which marked Russia’s withdrawal from the war, was signed on 3rd March 1918 by the new Russian government which had come to power in the October Revolution. For the first time since the conflict had begun, Germany and the Central Powers could concentrate their efforts on the Western Front. For the German High Command i…


The Russian Army and the First World War by Nik Cornish

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The role of Russia and its army in the Great War is both poorly understood in the west and relatively poorly documented in English. This new book by Nik Cornish, an historian of the Russian Army - whose expertise as a picture researcher, is also underline in this new work - offers a valuable antidote. It plainly meets his stated objectives to provi…