Postcard map of Galicia, one of the Austro-Hungarian theaters of war, from Cracow to Tarnopol along the north of the Carpathian Mountains. The region includes the fortress city of Przemyśl.

Östl. Kriegsschauplatz. 3. Galizien - Lublin - Warschau

Maßst[ab]. 1:4500000

Festungen, Forts.; Eisenbahnen



Eastern Front. 3. Galicia - Lublin - Warsaw

Scale 1:4500000

Fortresses, Forts; Railroads



Reverse:

Sammlung J. Thomas, Sachrang/Obb.

Adolf Brandstätter, Postkarten-Verlag

Beilitz (Oesterr., Schles.)

Postkarten des östlichen Kriegschauplatzes Nr. 3. Import.



Collection of J. Thomas, Sachrang / Bavaria.

Adolf Brandstätter, postcard publisher

Beilitz (Austrian, Schleswig.)

Postcards of the eastern theater of war No. 3 Imports.



Message date and field postmark, September 29, 1915

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Sunday, November 5, 1916

"On the Eastern Front, other shortages were impeding any hope of a renewed Russian success. 'The plain truth is,' wrote Colonel Knox in his diary on November 5, 'that without aeroplanes and far more heavy guns and shell and some knowledge of their use, it is butchery, and useless butchery, to drive Russian infantry against German lines.' In the previous five months, Knox was told by General Dukhonin, the Quarter-Master General, Russian losses 'may well have exceeded a million men' killed and wounded.

. . . On November 5 the German-sponsored Kingdom of Poland was proclaimed, with Warsaw as its capital."

Quotation Context

Russia's Brusilov Offensive, begun brilliantly on June 4, 1916, and one of the great offensives of the war, had broken the Austro-Hungarian front until Germany came (once again) to it's ally's aid. Since September the Russians had done little more than throw men into battle with inadequate support, as Knox notes. The former Kingdom of Poland was divided between Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. In an attempt to rally Polish nationalists to their side, the German declaration was cynical, but more than Russia could muster.

Source

The First World War, a Complete History by Martin Gilbert, page 295, copyright © 1994 by Martin Gilbert, publisher: Henry Holt and Company, publication date: 1994

Tags

1916-11-05, 1915, November, casualties, statistic, Poland, map, Galicia, Warsaw, Krakow, Brest-Litowsk, Lemberg, Carpathians, Carpathian Mountains, Tarnopol, Myslowitz, Tarnow