World War One Diary for Thursday, January 31, 1918: Eastern Front Russia: USSR PROCLAIMED. Red 1st Northern Flying Column (including 400 sailors) takes Orenburg (Urals) from Ataman Dutov. Austria: Colonel-General […]
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World War One Diary for Wednesday, January 30, 1918: Home Front Germany: Strikes spread to 6 major cities, but leadership divided. Western Front BEF now deployed from Houthulst Forest, northeast
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World War One Diary for Tuesday, January 29, 1918: Air War Britain: Again Moonlight raid on London (20 casualties) by 3 of 4 Giants sent; defences misidentified them as 15
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World War One Diary for Monday, January 28, 1918: Sea War Dardanelles: HM Submarine E14 (11 survivors PoWs) mined and sunk off Kum Kale in vain attempt to torpedo Goeben.
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World War One Diary for Sunday, January 27, 1918: Middle Wast Mesopotamia: Dunsterville Mission (200 men and 41 vehicles) leaves Baghdad for Kermanshah (main target Caucasus). Eastern Front Russia: Bolsheviks
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World War One Diary for Saturday, January 26, 1918: Western Front Germany: OHL publishes The Attack in Position Warfare, bible of 1918 offensives, stresses attack in depth with air support.
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World War One Diary for Friday, January 25, 1918: Southern Fronts Piave: British 5th Division relieves Italian VIII Corps (until January 27). Eastern Front German Suedarmee disbanded. Rumanians fight Reds
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World War One Diary for Thursday, January 24, 1918: Middle East Mesopotamia: Turk air raids on Baghdad cause slight damage (until January 25). Arabia: Fakhri Bey’s 1,000 troops from Amman
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World War One Diary for Wednesday, January 23, 1918: Southern Fronts Italian Front: Below’s German Fourteenth Army headquarter closes. Eastern Front Brest-Litovsk: Trotsky suspends talks calling German policy ‘a most
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World War One Diary for Tuesday, January 22, 1918: Eastern Front Austria: Czernin back in Vienna asks permission to make separate peace if necessary, Austria has only two months grain.
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World War One Diary for Monday, Jnauary 21, 1918: Western Front Germany: LUDENDORFF MAKES FINAL DECISION TO LAUNCH GREAT SPRING OFFENSIVE. D-Day to be March 14. Lorraine: US 1st Division
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World War One Diary for Sunday, January 20, 1918: Sea War Aegean – Action off Imbros: Battlecruiser Goeben and light cruiser Breslau (Vice-Admiral Rebeur-Paschwitz) sortie against British monitors near Dardanelles,
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World War One Diary for Saturday, January 19, 1918: Home Fronts Hungary: 86th Infantry Regiment mutinies at Szabadka, 2 other regiments likewise (February 11 and 14).
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World War One Diary for Friday, January 18, 1918: Eastern Front Brest-Litovsk: Trotsky breaks off talks, envoys leave to confer at home on January 20. Finland: Mannerheim, Army C-in-C since
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World War One Diary for Thursday, January 17, 1918: Home Fronts Austria: Emperor Charles cables Czernin ‘If peace is not made at Brest-Litovks it will be revolution here, no matter
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