Where To Stream The Great War Season 2 Episode 30
Week 52 Scorched Earth - Russia's Retreat Goes Up in Flames!
- Aired July 23, 2015
- 10 Min
This week Russia premieres her tactics of „Scorched Earth". A new strategy of burning their own land is to avoid enemies profiting from their conquests. Russia had been retreating from the German and Austro-Hungarian armies for nearly three months now. Continuously losing huge areas of land and hundreds of thousands of men on the Eastern Front. As a consequence, millions of civilians had to flee their homes. At the same time allied troops at Gallipoli are weakened by infections and disease due...