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Gorlice–Tarnów
2 May 1915 — Mackensen’s breakthrough on a 50-km front unhinges the whole Russian line. By September the Great Retreat has surrendered Poland, Lithuania and a million prisoners — and made Russia’s home front a rumor mill of treason.
This is one scene of Chapter 4 — The Widening War in The Great War, 1914–1918.
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