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| | Amazon.com: Books: August 1914 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Prime Minister, East Prussia, Supreme Commander, Chief of Staff, General Staff, State Council, Nikolai Yakovlevich, General Samsonov, Winter Palace, Tsarskoye Selo, Port Arthur, State Duma, Socialist Revolutionaries, General Kurlov, Council of Ministers, Zakhar Fyodorovich, Quartermaster General, Ministry of the Interior, Ilya Isakovich, Social Democrats, Ist Corps, General von François, Dorogobuzh Regiment, Far East, Pyotr Arkadievich |
 | | The story is about the entrance of Imperial Russia into World War I. War is declared and Russia in its hurry to honor its commitments to France, invades Prussia. |
 | | Its army under the leadership of General Samsonov is unprepared for war and Russia suffers a humiliating defeat as the army is surrounded and destroyed. |
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