Golovine N. N. The Russian Campaign of 1914

The Beginning of the War and Operations in East Prussia by Nicholas N. Golovine, Lieutenant General, Imperial Russian Army / Preface by Marshal Foch. — Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: The Command and General Staff School Press, 1933. — xxi + 410 p.

На сайте размещено издание этой книги на русском языке: Головинъ Н. Н. Изъ исторiи кампанiи 1914 года на Русскомъ фронтѣ. Начало войны и операцiи въ Восточной Пруссiи. — Прага: Изд. Пламя подъ общимъ руководствомъ профессора Е. А. Ляцкаго, 1926. — 436 с.

Contents

Part I.
The Beginning of the War

Chapter I. Was the Russian general mobilization the cause of the war? [3]
Chapter II. Russia’s military strength [25]
Chapter III. The War Plan [45]
Chapter IV. Mobilization, concentration, and the first Operations Orders [74]

Part II.
The First Operations in East Prussia

Chapter V. Operations of the First Army. The commencements of the advance and the approach to the battlefield of Gumbinnen [101]
Chapter VI. Operations of the First Army (continued). The battle of Gumbinnen; the continuation of the advance of the First Army [124]
Chapter VII. Operations of the Second Army. The initial Operations Orders; the advance and the approach of the Army to the battlefield [166]
Chapter VIII. The battles of General Samsonov’s Army on the 26th, 27th, and 28th August [218]
Chapter IX. The death throes of the center corps of the Second Army [290]
Chapter X. The consequences of the defest of Samsonov’s Army [328]
Chapter XI. The Battle of the Masurian Lakes and the retreat of the First Army [354]

Appendices

No. 1. Peace-time distriblltion by Corps and Military Districts of First-line Infantry and Cavalry Divisions [391]
No. 2. Composition of the Armies (in accordance with the instructions approved by His Majesty the 1st May 1912) [393]
No. 3. Composition of the German Eighth Army on the 26th August 1914 [394]
No. 4. Final composition of the actual armies after the alterations made during the pre-mobilization period and the first days of mobilization [395]
No. 5. Composition of the First Russian Army on the 20th August 1914 [396]
No. 6. Directive No.1 to the Commander of the First Army [396]
No. 7. Eighth (German) Army Orders (14th August 1914) [398]
No. 8. First Army Directive No. 1 [399]
No. 9. First Army Orders No. 2 [401]
No. 10. Composition of the Second Russian Army [402]
No. 11. Directive No.2 to the Commander of the Second Army [403]
No. 12. Second Army Orders No. 1 [404]
No. 13. Second Army Directive No. 1 [405]
No. 14. Second Army Directive No. 2 [407]
No. 15. Second Army Directive No. 4 [407]
No. 16. Eighth (Gennan) Army Orders (25th August 1914) [409]
No. 17. Eighth (German) Army Orders (29th August 1914) [409]