Senin, 10 Oktober 2016

An Offensive by the Numbers – Russia and Turkey On the Caucasus Front, 1916

The Great War’s Caucasus Front did not deserve the name of sideshow.  Although for the untrained eye there were no objectives there that would cripple either the vast Russian or the Ottoman Empires.   Its rocky crags reached heights of 4,000 meters in many places and winter temperatures often dropped to minus 30 degrees Celsius.  There …

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