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Название: Revolutionary. Frame by frame
Автор: Rem Word
Издательство: Издательские решения
Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары
isbn: 9785449675361
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A half-faded, faded photograph of a century ago – Russian troops are entering Erzerum. Turkish banners bow in humility. And, this is the last victory of Russian weapons in the First World War in the South-East
Russian soldiers at the guns of the Erzerum fortress. First half of 1916. Randomly selected photo.
At the beginning of 1916, the main idea of the German command was to cut off the ledge of the French defense near the city of Verdun, surround 8 enemy divisions, and develop an offensive against Paris. Another version of military historians – the Germans are going to draw, one by one, the Allied Anglo-French armies into the slaughterhouse, in order to bleed the Entente with the help of their superbly developed heavy artillery. The operation starts on February 21, 1916. After an 8-hour ruthless artillery preparation, the German infantry units begin to storm the enemy’s trenches.
German battalions advance in three lines 80—100 m apart. Scouts, assault groups and sappers are ahead, then dense groups of the actual, infantry, reinforced by flamethrowers, and machine-gun subunits. In one day, one can advance one to two kilometers in this way. Photography – German columns moving to the front line, Verdun, early 1916
Further, from February 27 to March 6, according to a kind of “Road of Life”, or even literally “Sacred Road” (La Voie Sacrée) to a single highway, for 6,000 vehicles, the French deliver 190,000 people and 25,000 tons of military cargo. In the course comes heavy artillery Entente. At the beginning of the campaign several large forts surrender almost without a fight. However, the entire Verdun is a single, fairly extensive fortified area. For some time now the battle has resulted in a chain of fiercest battles for every French bastion. Germany depletes not only the units of the Entente, but also itself. By June 23, 1916, the offensive stops. The photograph is a large-caliber French gun. Verdun, 1916
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