"Stallupönen info ?" Topic

I was thinking of starting 2014with a bit of renewed Eastern Front action starting with Stallupönen. While I have some reasonable graphics

I don't have any lower level narrative supporting it so I am not too sure how it all developed. Can anyone provide any more references that would help

Naval Military Press might be able to help

This one's from the Russian viewpoint

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- The classic Russian account of their defeat at the outset of the Great War at Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes. The double battle, won by the dual command of Hindenburg and Ludendorff, changed the course of the whole war.

It covers just 1914

and this one from the German point…

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– War memoirs of Max Hoffmann, the brilliant German staff officer who devised the plan to encircle and crush the invading Russian armies at Tannnburg and the Masurian Lakes in Prussia in 1914. Betrays Hoffmann's bitterness that Ludendorff and Hindenburg got the credit for his victory. A few years after the war, when touring the field at Tannenburg, Hoffmann told a group of army cadets "See – this is where Hindenburg slept before the battle, this is where Hindenburg slept after the battle, and this is where Hindenburg slept during the battle."

Hoffman iirc spent the whole of his war on the Eastern front, so his covers a broader timeframe, but, again iirc, in some detail…

And really quite readable

Dennis Showalters book "Tannenberg: Clash of Empires" covers the battle. I found the book to be really well written and gave me a whole new respect for the early Russian army's fighting capabilities.

Managed to read part of showalters book as a preview and the article regarding Stalluponen is excellent. Definitely not the same conduct of the battle as is generally available in the English Language. Have just ordered it for what else might be in it :)

Thanks for the suggestion

A colleague sent me this link

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which is excellent. The more I read the more interesting Stalluponen becomes; moving away from the perception of Francois impetuous attack to the danger the Russian attack , which barely gets a mention elsewhere (links above excepted), actually posed. The extraction of the two centre companies at night is also a very interesting sidebar to the main engagement.