When Paul von Hindenburg was recalled to military service and named commander of the German Eighth Army in August 1914, he faced the advancing Russian First and Second armies on World War I’s Eastern Front who held an overwhelming numerical superiority. After defeating Russia’s Second Army in ...
It was not until two Russian armies threatened to overrun the German 8th Army inEast Prussiathat Ludendorff was appointed chief of staff of the 8th Army. Ludendorff,dynamicbut occasionally harsh and in times of crisis often nervous, was assigned to the elderly GeneralPaul von Hindenburg, who was...