The 22nd Corps did not even succeed in getting near Rennenkampf, and was halted by the Germans fifty miles away from the field of battle. Rennenkampf had, therefore, not 200,000 men to Germany's 300,000, but only 160,000,—about one-half. The cause of the defeat of Rennenkampf was that that military operation had been calculated for the combined armies of Samsonov and Rennenkampf, and was a risky undertaking at that. When Rennenkampf was left alone, this operation was as a matter of course doomed to defeat, and it required the tenacity of Rennenkampf to have offered the obstinate resistance that he did in this battle.
Transcriber's Note
Obvious punctuation errors were corrected.
Inconsistent hyphenation wss made consistent.
Ludendorff consistently spelled Ludendorf but has not been corrected.
p. 10: Apparent missing line in: "brought about the final defeat of the Germans in this [newline] sonov."
pp. 45-6: Several misspellings of Rennenkampf corrected.
p. 46: He was atacked frontally -> He was attacked frontally.