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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...so as to get behind the Russian Army covering Brest Litovsk, and cut off its retreat to the Dnieper. The Marshal paid dearly for Ihe capture of Kovno, but the prize was worth its cost. Meanwhile, lower down the line the German armies were nearing Brest Litovsk. Scholtz, with Gallwitz on his right, crossed the Nurec river (see map, p. 188) on August 15th, and the two Generals then pushed on to the Bielostock-Brest Litovsk railway. So, too, did Prince Leopold of Bavaria, who threw off the Russian troops blocking his way from Sokolow, and whose left wing crossed the Bug at Drohiczyn on the same day as Scholtz and Gallwitz crossed the Nurec. Higher up the Bug the Archduke Joseph Ferdinand, who belonged to Mackensen's group, having left Biala behind him, also crossed the river at Janow, which is not marked on the map, but is about twenty miles north-west of Brest Litovsk. By these movements the Germans deprived the Russian Army defending the Bug fortress of one of its lines of railway communication with Petrograd through Bielostock, while Mackensen's right wing, operating on the east bank of the Bug below Vlodava, threatened another line of retreat through Kovel to Kef. It then became clear that the Grand Duke would be unable to stay where he was on the Bug, and a further retreat would be necessary. How this was brought about will be told in Chapter XVI. Brest Litovsk had of late years been converted into a big entrenched camp, and a vast quantity of store and war maltriel had been collected within its precincts with a view to its use as an advanced base for offensive operations against Galicia. Strong as the fortress was, and important as it was to hold it, the safety of the Russian Army was more important still, and this the Grand Duke knew, for as we shall pr...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150129573
- ISBN 13 9781150129575
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages142
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