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Suicide of the Empires


by Alan Clark

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

Suicide of the Empires: The Battles on the Eastern Front 1914-18 by Alan Clark

Publisher: American Heritage Press, 1971

Copyright: 1971 by Alan Clark

Other books by Alan Clark (2)

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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
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