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18. Revenge of the Northern Crusades

September 02, 2020 • Dylan Kornberg • Season 4 • Episode 2

Today, we watch as the Russian and German Armies on the Eastern Front begin to dance around one another in 1914, upon a land that had seen wars between these two peoples for centuries, in anticipation for the great climactic showdown that may very well determine the fate of the entire war.

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Sources:

Cartwright, Mark. Northern Crusades. https://www.ancient.eu/Northern_Crusades/

Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Meyer, G.J. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914-1918. New York: Bantam Dell, 2006.

Otte, Thomas G. The July Crisis: The World’s Descent into War, Summer 1914. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1962.

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