OUT OF ACTION Wounded Russian soldiers pictured in c1916. Dense forests, swamps and snow-bound mountains made the eastern front a supremely challenging environment in which to wage war
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FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH Russian soldiers prepare a meal during their advance into Galicia, 1914. Tsar Nicholas II’s 4.5 million troops ensured that German forces were tied up in the east for much of the First World War
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