The Battlefield 1915 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Stead's Review: Sept Oct, 1915 I think. On the whole, the happenings of August bear out my contention of last month that as a fighting force the Poland army of the Grand Duke has practically ceased to exist. There may be great numbers of Muscovite soldiers still under arms, but they are separate entities; the army machinery has vanished. These men will. Of course. Be collected together, and will form a splendid nucleus on which to build up a new efficient war machine, but our own experience. And that of Kitchener at home. Makes it absolutely clear that it takes at least nine months to create a new army a million strong. The Rus sians, with their seasoning of veterans, mav do it in six, but obviously the Allies can look for no great assistance from Russia until next spring or sum mer. New armies will be ready then. Whether they are equipped or not de pends entirely upon the forcing of the Darclanelles. Depends. That is, to a large extent. Upon our men fighting on Galli poli. There are. I find, still people who firmly believe that the Russians will soon be surging forward again, will once more hurl the Germans and Aus trians back to their own frontiers as they have done twice already. A brief consideration of the position shows how devoid of foundation is this home. As suming, for the moment. That the Grand Duke actually did get his armies away intact, the same reasons which permitted the rapid German advance will prevent a Russian offensive. In this war it is the high explosive shell. The gigantic gun which wins out every time. The Ger mans drove the Russians out of Galicia. Out of Poland. With a rain of shells on the same principle as a man cleans a street with a water hose. To force the enemy back now the Russians will have to employ the same method, will have to retake their own fortresses rearmed in the thorough German manner. They have not the guns or the shells to do it with guns thev bad in Poland were patently outranged. And the supply of explosive shells was utterly insuffi cient. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.