1971
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The Russian Army in the First World War—brave but badly-led and only half equipped—had suffered defeat after defeat during two years of agonising battle. One general alone, Alexi Brusilov, possessed both the will and the genius to organise it for victory. In the summer or 1916 he was to seize the opportunity to do so which a jealous high command had hitherto refused him . . .
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Geoffrey Jukes
Author · 8 books
A former civil servant and scholar in international relations, Geoffrey Jukes spent 14 years in the UK Ministry of Defence and Foreign and Colonial Office, specialising in Russian/Soviet military history, strategy and arms control. He was a Senior Fellow in International Relations at ANU from 1967 to 1993, and an Associate of the Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies (the Middle East & Central Asia) until his death in 2010.
