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Collision of Empires

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Collision of Empires

Prit Buttar, "Collision of Empires"
2014 | ISBN: 1782006486 | 488 pages | EPUB | 13 MB

The fighting that raged from East Prussia, through occupied Poland, to Galicia and the Carpathian Mountains was every bit as bloody as comparable battles in Flanders and France, but with the exception of Tannenberg remains relatively unknown. As was the case in the west, generals struggled to reconcile their pre-war views on the conduct of operations, and how to execute their intricate strategic plans, with the reality of war. Lessons were learned only slowly while the core of trained personnel particularly officers and NCOs in the armies of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia suffered catastrophic losses throughout 1914. Inadequacies in supply and support arrangements, together with a failure to plan for a long war, left all three powers struggling to keep up with events, and in addition the Central Powers had to come to terms with the dreaded reality of a war on two fronts. A war that was initially seen by all three powers as a welcome opportunity to address both internal and external issues would ultimately bring about the downfall of them all.