Battle of Tannenberg begins | August 26, 1914 | HISTORY

Subject of the A. Solzhenitsyn book, August 1914, which - was on the Chief of Staff, Army -Reading List once upon a time...

On August 26, 1914, the German 8th Army, under the leadership of Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, strikes with lethal force against the advancing Russian 2nd Army, led by General Aleksandr Samsonov, in East Prussia during the opening weeks of the First World War.