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The Wet Flanders Plain [1929, British Army]
Henry Williamson (1895–1977), 1929
Named on the page for Battle of Tannenberg (1914).
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Passages that name the battle; the whole book is at Internet Archive.
26–30 August 1914
Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
THE WET FLANDERS PLAIN
attitude in the annals of the highly-important, to wit, the War Memories of General Ludendorff, where he writes of the battle of Tannenberg.
THE WET FLANDERS PLAIN
“The enemy losses in killed and wounded, too, were extremely heavy. One of the most brilliant battles in the history of the world had been fought. To the training of our army in peace time, alone, did we owe this feat.’ (Then four paragraphs further on he says) ‘In the Protestant Church at Allenstein General Von Hindenburg and I rendered thanks to Almighty God for this victory.’
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