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Description: | Ts account (65pp) of his service as Staff Officer to Lieutenant General Sir Charles St Leger Barter, British Military Representative to the Headquarters of the Russian Armies in the Field, and his experiences as an observer on the Russian Front, August 1917, describing his journey to the Russian Front and tour of inspection of the battlefields during the 1917 Offensive, including his impressions of the Russian army and officers and the progress of the campaign, while commenting on the weakness of the German and Austrian defences, the morale of the army and officers, and the poor organisation of his tour, as well as providing eye-witness descriptions of the Russian attack and the captured German and Austrian lines; he also comments on the Russian collapse and describes his contempt for all but the individual bravery of some Russian officers.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-06-24 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Maitland-Edwards, G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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