Excerpt from Raemaekers Cartoon History of the War, Vol. 2 In the East the great Teutonic drive through Poland was still in progress, although the Russian armies had everywhere es caped envelopment, and their retreat was nearly at an end. War saw was occupied by the Germans early in August. It was a moment chosen by Germany to make an offer of separate peace to Russia. The enemy sought to gain by bribery what his armies had failed to accomplish in the field. The offer was rejected by Russia. By October Germany's greatest military effort so far had failed and the Russian armies stood intact from the Bukovina to Riga. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.