East Prussian operation of 1914. Vacetis I.I.

Joachim Ioakimovich Vacetis (1873-1938)-Russian officer and prominent Soviet military leader-the first commander in chief of the RSFSR, commander of the 2nd rank, professor of the Military Academy of the Red Army. The pen of Vacetis belongs to several valuable scientific works on the history of the combat operations of the Russian army in the First World War. One of them is “Operations on the eastern border of Germany in 1914” - The reader is offered. The author, on the basis of numerous reports, directives and orders, telegrams and memoirs of events, examines in detail the course of hostilities in East Prussia in 1914 and analyzes the causes of the defeat of the Russian army.