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Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, J. Martin (James Martin), b. 1859 Canfield, Harry S. (from old catalog), joint author Plewman, William Rothwell, 1880- (from old catalog) Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929 Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945 United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The R.C. Barnum co. Detroit, Mich., The F.B. Dickerson co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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. TheGalician capital, being undefended, was evacuated by the Austrians the same day.The Russians occupied it on September2, while the Austrians took up strong po-sitions among the Grodek lakes, twdvemiles to the west. They were unable tohold here. In the meantime Dankl wasbehind his frontier once more, with Ivan-off hot on his heels. The end of the firstweek in September then, found Russiantroops flowing across both the eastern andnorthern borders of Galicia and towardthe slopes of the Carpathians. A realization by France and GreatBritain by the middle of August of theirdoubtful ability to parry the tremendousGerman blow in the west, led to appealsto Petrograd for help in the fonn of aninvasion of East Prussia and a blowagainst Germany. Responding to thesepleas, and it must be said before circum-stances in the army warranted such anundertaking, Russia despatched two ar-mies, one from the Warsaw district andthe other from Grodno and the Niemenfortresses, toward the East Prussian fron-
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British Troops in Possession of the Historic City of Bagdad. HISTORY OF THE WAB 71 tier. Opposed by only the thinnest ofdefenses, both had early successes. TheNiemen army won an easy victory atGumbinnen and approached within a fewmiles of the Koenigsberg fortress. TheWarsaw army reached the Allen stein dis-trict, but there it met with complete dis-aster. Germany became thoroughly alarmedby the Russian advance and hurriedlysent into the east units destined for and numbers of men were involved, in theearly stages of the war. He struck theRussian Warsaw columns at Tannenburgnear Allenstein and in three days, on atriangular front about 60 miles in lengthhe had practically annihilated an army ofa quarter of a million men, capturing morethan 100,000 prisoners and killing tens ofthousands more. The Russians weredriven into the Masurian marslies andmany of them were drowned. The re-

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