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Breakthrough : the Gorlice-Tarnów campaign, 1915

"The first English-language study of the first of the great breakthrough battles of the war -- one of the Great War's critical campaigns. The book covers the initial attack of the German Eleventh Army and the Austro-Hungarian Third and Fourth Armies in Galicia as they outflanked the Russian position in the Carpathian Mountains that threatened Hungary"--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2010
Praeger, Santa Barbara, Calif., ©2010
Nonfiction
xvi, 215 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
9780275991104, 9780313081835, 0275991105, 0313081832
502304526
The strategic setting
Strategic decisions and coalition warfare
Forces, plans, and preparations
Punching the hole : May 2-5, 1915
The capture of Przemysl : May 6 [to] June 6, 1915
Liberating Lemberg : June 6-24, 1915
Decisions and preparations : June 25 [to] July 13, 1915
The conquest of Poland : July 13 [to] August 31, 1915
Assessments