Tannenberg

Tannenberg may refer to

* Tannenberg, Saxony, a town in the district of Annaberg in the German state of Saxony.
* The German name for the village of Stębark in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland. This was the location of the Battle of Grunwald in 1410 and the Second Battle of Tannenberg in 1914.

1914 Battle

For a more detailed account see Battle of Tannenberg (1914) - In August 1914 when Germany marched into Northern France. Tsar Nicholas II found himself in a dilemma. According to a treaty with the French, he was obliged to attack Germany in order to prevent his ally from becoming completely overrun. But Russia was not ready for battle. Its troops were unfit and undertrained. Their equipment was inferior, and the supply routes to the front worse than rudimentary. Yet the Tsar stood by his treaty, and was confident that he would be able to overwhelm the Germans through sheer weight of numbers. So began the Tennerberg Campaign. Over the course of the next six weeks the Russians repeatedly found themselves outmanoeuvred and outwitted by their German counterparts. Detail taken from a copy of Tannenberg 1914 published by Cassell London in 2002 with an ISBN 0 304 35635 2 ]

Bibliography

* "Tannenberg 1914" by John Sweetman. Includes battle plans in colour and archived black and white photographic plates of the battle.

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