Today, we watch as the Russian and German Armies on the Eastern Front begin to dance around one another in 1914, upon a land that had seen wars between these two peoples for centuries, in anticipation for the great climactic showdown that may very well determine the fate of the entire war.IMAGES FOR TODAY'S EPISODESources:Cartwright, Mark. Northern Crusades. https://www.ancient.eu/Northern_Crusades/Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.Meyer, G.J. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914-1918. New York: Bantam Dell, 2006.Otte, Thomas G. The July Crisis: The World’s Descent into War, Summer 1914. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014.Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1962. Support the show (http://paypal.me/seminalcatastrophe)