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26-30 Aug 1914 — Using railways and intercepted Russian radio sent in clear, a smaller German force encircles Samsonov’s Second Army in the lake country: 92,000 prisoners. Samsonov walks into the forest and shoots himself.
This is one scene of Chapter 2 — The Guns of August in The Great War, 1914–1918.
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