DOC From Reconciliation to Revolution: The Student Interracial Ministry; Liberal Christianity; and the Civil Rights Movement by David P. Cline in History

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While millions of men died in France and Belgium in 1915; battles equally as large and bloody were being fought on the Eastern Front; as Imperial Germany; Hapsburg Austria-Hungary; and Tsarist Russia clashed on a scale greater than anything seen on the Western Front. These massive offensives were shocking in their scale and intensity; and hugely important. Yet they are largely ignored in the West. Now; with the work of internationally renowned Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar; this story of the unknown side of World War I is finally being told.In Germany Ascendant; Buttar examines the critical year of 1915; when Germany launched the great Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive; lead by Field Marshal Mackensen. The move; which started as a minor German operation to relieve their Austro-Hungarian allies; ultimately resulted in the utter collapse of Russian forces from all of Poland and Gallacia; and came tantalizingly close to knocking Russia out of the war altogether. Next the Germans led the invasion of Serbia; leading Britain and France to intervene with ground troops; an operation that ultimately failed.Yet despite this unbroken string of successes; Germany was still hamstrung by a two-front war. Her every attempt to knock Russia out of the war--military and diplomatic--has failed. The stage was then set for the next phase of the war when Russia launched its own counter-offensive that nearly brought the Central Powers to their knees.