This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...of the Teutonic armies to envelop and destroy some portion of the Russian forces involved the creation of several dangerous salients in the Russian line, followed by an endeavor to close the neck of each salient by attacks from both sides and so to isolate the armies forming its apex. The campaign in Galicia drove the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...of the Teutonic armies to envelop and destroy some portion of the Russian forces involved the creation of several dangerous salients in the Russian line, followed by an endeavor to close the neck of each salient by attacks from both sides and so to isolate the armies forming its apex. The campaign in Galicia drove the Russian left wing eastward to the Bug and Zlota Lipa, thereby creating the great Warsaw salient. Incidental to this campaign was the creation of an important salient at Przemysl. After the Warsaw salient had been straightened out by the withdrawal of the Russian center to the line of the Bug, the salients of Grodno and Vilna were in turn developed. The great retreat ended with the unsuccessful German attacks against Riga and Dvinsk. The role of land forms in the Galician and Riga-Dvinsk campaigns, and their skilful utilization by the Russian commanders in extricating their armies from every salient, form the subject of the following chapter. CHAPTER X THE GEEAT RUSSIAN RETREAT The Galician Campaign and the Przemysl Salient The attack on the Dunajec-Biala line, which began the The point Galician campaign the last of April, was directed against the nesa and whole of this front; but, according to report, with especial its terrain vigor against CieSkowice, where the lines of trenches left the Biala River to cross the hills toward the Carpathian crest (Fig. 9). Assuming the truth of the report, it is not difficult to understand why the locality mentioned should be a point of weakness in the Russian line. As described in an earlier chapter, both the Dunajec and Biala valleys are fairly open, flat-floored trenches with steep sides, which, with the streams meandering through them, form a natural moat of formidable proportions behind which the Russians...
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Good. Size: 6x1x9; Hardcover actual first edition (not a reprint) from 1917. A little water logged; strong reading copy. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.
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