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Carpathian Disaster: Death of an Army


by Geoffrey Jukes

Photograph of two German soldiers in spiked helmets and fur coats, standing in snow woods, holding their rifles with bare hands, dated January 24, 1918. A short translation from the reverse: “. . . The Russians are already gone. They are right. We should do the same . . . " (translation, Thomas Faust).

Photograph of two German soldiers in spiked helmets and fur coats, standing in the snow, dated January 24, 1918. A short translation from the reverse: “. . . The Russians are already gone. They are right. We should do the same . . . " (translation, Thomas Faust). © John Shea

Carpathian Disaster: Death of an Army by Geoffrey Jukes

Publisher: Ballantine, 1971

Copyright: Geoffrey Jukes 1971