…. His Dying Mother – He Returned To Camp Voluntarily Only To Dig A Tunnel And Escape
"In WWI the German Empire was on the rampage. Europe has always existed through a complex network of alliances. When Germany united in 1871, it absorbed Prussia, and by 1879, had entered an alliance with Austria-Hungary to counteract Russia and its influence over the Balkans. By 1882, that agreement included Italy.
Russia reacted by entering the Franco-Russian Alliance eight years later, and in 1904, Britain signed the Cordial Agreement with France. In so doing, Britain and France ended almost one thousand years of intermittent conflicts between them.
Then in 1907, Britain signed the Anglo-Russian Convention. The result was not an Anglo-Franco-Russian alliance, per se, but the Triple Entente made it likely that each was going to help the other in the event of war…."
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adds a machinegun platoon to his WWI Brits.
