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Fall of Bucharest (1916)
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6 Dec 1916 — Three months after Romania joins the Allies, Falkenhayn and Mackensen converge on its capital from north and south. The rump army winters in Moldavia; Germany spends the rest of the war running Romanian grain and oil west.
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- Verdun, the Somme and Brusilov (chapter 7 of WWI)
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- The Great War, 1871–1923
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