The Gorlice–Tarnów offensive during World War I was initially conceived as a minor German offensive to relieve Russian pressure on the Austro-Hungarians to their south on the Eastern Front, but result
Predominantly Polish troops of the Austro-Hungarian Army fire on Imperial Russian forces entrenched on the Pustki hill in the Carpathian Mountains.
210 mm artillery shells used by Austro-Hungarian forces
German heavy siege mortars at Przemyśl
Women come out to sell produce and wares in the ruins of the Gorlice town market square.
The Great Retreat was a strategic withdrawal and evacuation on the Eastern Front of World War I in 1915. The Imperial Russian Army gave up the salient in Galicia and Congress Poland. The Russian Empir
Russian withdrawal in 1915.
German cavalry entering Warsaw on August 5, 1915.