Tannenberg

Author : Dennis E. Showalter
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597974943

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Tannenberg by Dennis E. Showalter Pdf

The battle of Tannenberg (August 27-30, 1914) opened World War I with a decisive German victory over Russia-indeed the Kaiser's only clear-cut victory in a non-attritional battle during four years of war. In this first paperback edition of the classic work, historian Dennis Showalter analyzes this battle's causes, effects, and implications for subsequent German military policy. The author carefully guides the reader through what actually happened on the battlefield, from its grand strategy down to the level of improvised squad actions. Examining the battle in the context of contemporary diplom.

Author : Dennis E. Showalter
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574887815

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Tannenberg by Dennis E. Showalter Pdf

Originally published: North Haven: Archon Books, 1991.

Author : Stephen Turnbull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846036446

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Tannenberg 1410 by Stephen Turnbull Pdf

By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland invaded the Order's territory with a powerful allied army including all the enemies of the Teutonic Knights – Poles, Lithuanians, Russians, Bohemians, Hungarians, Tartars and Cossacks. This book recounts how, when the armies clashed on the wooded, rolling hills near the small village of Tannenberg, the Teutonic Knights suffered a disastrous defeat from which their Order never recovered.

Author : Michael McNally
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472850201

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Tannenberg 1914 by Michael McNally Pdf

Explore the Eastern Front battle that resulted in one of the greatest defeats of World War I, in which an entire Russian army was annihilated by German arms. Tannenberg is a major battle that deserves a fully illustrated treatment all of its own, and for the first time this book brings the epic Eastern Front clash to life in visual detail. No other book on this topic walks you through the action like this one, using detailed maps to provide unit locations and movements and help explain key command decisions, while period photographs and colour battlescenes put soldiering back at the core of the events by revealing the military material culture of the opposing sides. Michael McNally guides you through the initial border engagements and the battles of Gumbinnen and Stallupönen, before moving on to explore the massive, often confused running battle of Tannenberg in easy to follow and concise detail. This work helps you understand how the Germans managed to maul Samsonov's Second Army and all but destroyed the Russians as a fighting force. The Russian war plan of using overwhelming numbers to gain a quick victory before conducting further operations would soon lie in pieces on the ground. It also assesses the contribution modern technology – such as railways, aerial reconnaissance, radio and telegraphy – made to the emphatic German victory.

Author : General Max Hoffmann
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786255402

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Tannenberg “As It Really Was” by General Max Hoffmann Pdf

General Max Hofmann was well known as a consummate planner, even by the high standards of the German Army of the First World War. Working as the operation hub on the Eastern Front he and his superiors, Hindenburg and Ludendorff, used superior strategy to offset the huge advantage of number that the enemy Russian army possessed. The greatest victory that they achieved was the dramatic battle of Tannenberg, still studied today as a masterpiece. In this memoir translated from the German, Hoffmann analyses from a leadership point of view of the battle and results of the military decisions and actions of the leaders. “Tannenberg is not the work of a single person. It is the result of the excellent schooling and development of our leaders and the incomparable performance of the German soldier “ states the author. Includes 7 maps.

Author : John Sweetman
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0304356352

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Tannenberg 1914 by John Sweetman Pdf

In 1914 Russia¿s doomed Tsar, Nicholas II, ordered his armies to invade German territory as soon as they had mobilized. They moved faster than the Germans gave them credit for and panic stories of Cossacks running amok in East Prussia led the German High Command to call back two army corps from the invasion of France. The two Russian armies involved in the attack were led by generals that hated each other more than the Germans; their lack of cooperation and signal staff¿s tendency to transmit radio messages without bothering to encode them helped the Germans plan and execute a massive ambush. The Russian 2nd Army was annihilated and the Tsarist forces never recovered the initiative until their defeat in 1917.

Author : Constantine Rudyard Jurgėla
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Tannenberg, Battle of, 1410
ISBN : UCSD:31822016006611

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Tannenberg by Constantine Rudyard Jurgėla Pdf

Author : Perry Pierik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000101091126

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Tannenberg by Perry Pierik Pdf

The encounter at Tannenberg went into history as a decisive historical battle. The actions of Erich Ludendorff indeed formed the highlight of a series of battles that prevented the tsarist army already advancing to Berlin in 1914. It was also the prelude to the enormous power Ludendorff accumulated later during the war and would turn out to be so disastrous for the German empire.

Author : Sir Edmund Ironside
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Tannenberg, Battle of, Stębark, Poland, 1914
ISBN : IND:32000011203777

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Tannenberg by Sir Edmund Ironside Pdf

Author : Paul Fischer-Graudenz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Tannenberg, Battle of, Poland, 1410
ISBN : PRNC:32101059989697

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Bei Tannenberg 1914 [ I.e.neunzehnhundertvierzehn] und 1410 [i.e Vierzehnhundertzehn] by Paul Fischer-Graudenz Pdf

Author : William L. Urban
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015002593748

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Tannenberg and After by William L. Urban Pdf

Author : Sir Geoffrey Evans
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014284502

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Tannenberg, 1410:1914 by Sir Geoffrey Evans Pdf

Account of two battles fought at Tannenberg, East Prussia (now Poland), the first a defeat for the Teutonic Knights, the second a German victory.

Author : Robert Michael Citino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015062848935

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The German Way of War by Robert Michael Citino Pdf

For Frederick the Great, the prescription for warfare was simple: kurz und vives (short and lively) - wars that relied upon swift, powerful, and decisive military operations. Robert Citino takes us on a dramatic march through Prussian and German military history to show how that primal theme played out time and time again. Citino focuses on operational warfare to demonstrate continuity in German military campaigns from the time of Elector Frederick Wilhelm and his great sleigh-drive against the Swedes to the age of Adolf Hitler and the blitzkrieg to the gates of Moscow. Along the way, he underscores the role played by the Prussian army in elevating a small, vulnerable state to the ranks of the European powers, describes how nineteenth-century victories over Austria and France made the German army the most respected in Europe, and reviews the lessons learned from the trenches of World War I.

Author : Anna Rosmus
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1570034907

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Against the Stream by Anna Rosmus Pdf

Born in 1960 to a middle-class Catholic family in the small city of Passau, Rosmus came to see that her formal education provided little information about the history of Nazi activity in Passau, or in Germany as a whole.".

Author : Michael McNally
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472850218

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Tannenberg 1914 by Michael McNally Pdf

Explore the Eastern Front battle that resulted in one of the greatest defeats of World War I, in which an entire Russian army was annihilated by German arms. Tannenberg is a major battle that deserves a fully illustrated treatment all of its own, and for the first time this book brings the epic Eastern Front clash to life in visual detail. No other book on this topic walks you through the action like this one, using detailed maps to provide unit locations and movements and help explain key command decisions, while period photographs and colour battlescenes put soldiering back at the core of the events by revealing the military material culture of the opposing sides. Michael McNally guides you through the initial border engagements and the battles of Gumbinnen and Stallupönen, before moving on to explore the massive, often confused running battle of Tannenberg in easy to follow and concise detail. This work helps you understand how the Germans managed to maul Samsonov's Second Army and all but destroyed the Russians as a fighting force. The Russian war plan of using overwhelming numbers to gain a quick victory before conducting further operations would soon lie in pieces on the ground. It also assesses the contribution modern technology – such as railways, aerial reconnaissance, radio and telegraphy – made to the emphatic German victory.