Diary August 6, 1917

08-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

General Field Marshal August von Mackensen (1849-1945).

World War One Diary for Monday, August 6, 1917:

Eastern Front

Rumania – Battle of Marasesti second phase begins (until September 3): Mackensen (12 divisions with 865 guns) storms positions north of Focsani, as Russian Fourth Army (Ragoza) flees, advances 8 miles and takes 3,000 PoWs (until August 7).

Politics

Britain: French Prime Minister Painleve and Lloyd George in London until August 8 to discuss separate peace with Austria-Hungary.
Russia: Tereshchenko new Foreign Minister, tells Colonel Knox on August 12 that Russia will fight through winter. Knox leaves for London on August 18, having seen Kerensky before on August 16.

Home Fronts

Russia: Kerensky as Prime Minister forms ‘Save the Revolution National Ministry’.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

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