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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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could gono further. By October, his group of armies was stationary. Von Mackensenhimself had been called away in the mean-time to direct the recently organized drivethrough Serbia to the Golden Hoi*n. Gei-many had achieved victory in theeast. The Russians had been swept fromEast Prussia. They had come to the aidof their weaker ally, Austria, and hadsaved the day. Had the Russians pos-sessed half the pertinacity of the French,the doggedness of the British, the warwould have been ended by the campaignson the eastern front. But these qualitiesthey lacked and the full fruits of theirsporadic dashes were lost. Probably the situation in Petrogradmade its effects felt at the front. Thecourt of Czar Nicholas was filled withpersons who exerted influence for Ger-many. The high military command wasdominated by politics. The personnel ofthe army itself was strong; the individualRussian soldier was a good fighter. Buttreachery stalked openly at the imperialcourt and among the militarj^ chiefs and
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French warriors on horseback. General Joffre kept these and nearly all his other mounted men fromwithin rifle range of the Germans. These men, who were photographed while reconnoitering in Sommeare as fine cavalry as the world ever saw. In their two years of service back of the trenches they had time to master the technique of their kind of warfare. 84 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK the talk of a separate peace followedevery reverse. During the winter of1915-16 Russia trembled upon the brinkof the political upheaval wliich later sweptroyalty from control, resulted in the revo-lution and the counter revolution and thedisgraceful peace of Brest-Litovsk. But with France and England de-manding a diversion and serious effort byRussia after von Mackensen had overrunthe Balkans, Russia gathered herself to-gether in the spring of 1916 and on June1st, launched the most pretentious of allher drives. Under Gen. Brusiloff anarmy of over 1,500,000 men stepped for-ward in a united effort along almost a con-t

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