Identifier: timeshistoryofwa10lond (find matches)
Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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bank. Most of the enemy-batteries on the Lysonia had been silenced, andsoon our Allies came to giips with the infantry. Only now I believe, writes again the Aus-trian-Polish officer, that there can be such athing as a heap of corpses .... that corpsescan form high, defensive walls. The battle-scene simply defies all description. Thosedistorted, inhuman, terrible faces, black withsmoke and dust, with shining white maddenedeyes, and wide, gaping mouths, from which south-east of Bzhezhany, including the Lysonia.But meantime the enemy was gathering power-fvil reinforcements. Bavarian resei-ves werebrought up to restore the perilous situation.They began the counter-attack against the tiredRussian troops under cover of the morningmist, at 4 a.m. on September 4. The LysoniaHeight was lost, but the extreme end of thetriangle, Hill 348 near the conflvience of therivers, and the crossing of the Tseniovka re-mained in the hands of our Allies. In theregion of Bzhezhany our troops forced the pas-
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