This Week in World War I August 22-28, 1914
Category: POLITICS
The German General Staff believed that it would take Russia a minimum of six weeks to mobilize its troops. In less than three weeks, however, the Russian First Army and the Second Army of General Alexander Samsonov began to advance into East Prussia.
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