Warsaw-Ivangorod operation 1914
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The Warsaw-Ivangorod operation became a 1-foot collision of the Austria-Hungary, Germany and Russia in 1914. The German army was the political goal of Warsaw"s seizure. Her loss was equivalent to the beginning of the collapse of the Russian Empire.
The German command sent troops to Warsaw to support the Austrians after defeat in Galicia. The Germans were not going to storm a city with a millionth population, protected by forts and serf artillery, but still they attacked it. The command of the Russian North-Western Front did not intend to protect Warsaw, planning to clear the city and gain a foothold on the right bank of the Vistula, relying on the fortresses of Novo-Georgievsk and Ivangorod. However, the commander of the South-Western Front insisted on holding Warsaw and using it to transfer armies to the left bank of the Vistula and further attack on Berlin.
Chronologically, the work is limited by the clashes of the avant -garde on distant approaches to the Vistula on September 21 (October 4, Article) and the total departure of the armies of the central powers on October 15 (28), 1914. The goal of its course of fighting, changes in the planes of the parties to the parties to conducting the operation, clarification of losses, analysis of the outcome of the battle, its influence on the course of the whole war at the East European Theater.
The author used the memoirs and letters of the generals of the former Germanic and Austrian armies, as well as the rich archival funds of the Russian armies, corps, divisions, brigades, regiments that make it possible to recreate and analyze the course of battles on the Visl
The German command sent troops to Warsaw to support the Austrians after defeat in Galicia. The Germans were not going to storm a city with a millionth population, protected by forts and serf artillery, but still they attacked it. The command of the Russian North-Western Front did not intend to protect Warsaw, planning to clear the city and gain a foothold on the right bank of the Vistula, relying on the fortresses of Novo-Georgievsk and Ivangorod. However, the commander of the South-Western Front insisted on holding Warsaw and using it to transfer armies to the left bank of the Vistula and further attack on Berlin.
Chronologically, the work is limited by the clashes of the avant -garde on distant approaches to the Vistula on September 21 (October 4, Article) and the total departure of the armies of the central powers on October 15 (28), 1914. The goal of its course of fighting, changes in the planes of the parties to the parties to conducting the operation, clarification of losses, analysis of the outcome of the battle, its influence on the course of the whole war at the East European Theater.
The author used the memoirs and letters of the generals of the former Germanic and Austrian armies, as well as the rich archival funds of the Russian armies, corps, divisions, brigades, regiments that make it possible to recreate and analyze the course of battles on the Visl
Author:
Author:Nelipovich Sergey Gennadievich
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:Historical Literature
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-91791-381-0
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