Tannenberg 1914 by John Sweetman. Includes battle plans in colour and archived black and white photographic plates of the battle. ^[1]

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. It's 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 overwealm 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. ^[1]

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.