ePub Cult Places and Cult Personnel in the Roman Empire (Variorum Collected Studies) by Duncan Fishwick in History

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In Russia's Last Gasp; Prit Buttar looks at one of the bloodiest campaigns launched in the history of warfare--the Brusilov Offensive; sometimes known as the June Advance. With British; French and German forces locked in a stalemate in the trenches of the Western Front; an attack was launched by the massed Russian armies to the east. The assault was intended to knock Austria-Hungary out of the war and divert German troops from the Western Front; easing the pressure on Russia's allies. Russia's dismal military performance in the preceding years was forgotten; as the Brusilov Offensive was quickly characterized by innovative tactics. Most impressive of all was the Russian use of shock troops; a strategy that German armies would later use to great effect in the final years of the war.Drawing on first-hand accounts and detailed archival research Buttar gives a dramatic retelling of final years of the war on the Eastern Front; with the Russian Army claiming military success at a cost so high that it was never able to recover.