TannenbergThe First Thirty Days In East Prussia
Gen. Edmund Ironside, KCB Maj
The battle of Tannenberg in 1914 is one of history's great turning points. Germany's war plans in 1914 were based on the assumption that Russia would only mobilise slowly and that Germany would have time to deal decisively with France via the Schlieffen Plan, before turning east to settle accounts with Russia. East Prussia was therefore left only lightly defended, with the bulk of the German army deployed in France. But when the Russians invad...