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就在法尔肯海因为他于十一月四日发动的伊普尔攻势投入更多心力时,鲁登道夫仍信誓旦旦表示他能打赢东线战事。[56]兴登堡一直以为会收到的六个军,最终给投入法尔肯海因“奔向大海”(race to the sea)的行动,使东线德军和奥军只有七十五个师对付俄国的一百三十五个师。鲁登道夫未因此丧气,还是在托恩(Thorn,波兰语称托伦/Torun)重新集结第九集团军。他和兴登堡给了法尔肯海因神圣不可侵犯的法国优先策略一个曲解性的新解读。他们(不情不愿地)同意,英法仍将是德军进攻的矛头,但补充说,英国远征军在受挫和夏季、秋季死伤大量兵员后,英国陆军总司令基钦纳(Kitchener)呼吁组建“新战斗力”一事,为德国提供了一个一旦错过即不再有的机会:一九一四年冬结束东线战争,然后趁着英国还未有新战斗力可用时,在一九一五年春将德国(和奥国)所有兵力移到西线。才几个星期,动用相对较少的兵力,鲁登道夫和兴登堡就挡住俄国蒸汽压路机。此刻他们打算将它解决掉。
[1] General Josef von Stürgkh,Im Deutschen Grossen Hauptquartier(Leipzig:Paul List,1921),46,132.
[2] Octavian C.Taslauanu,With the Austrian Army in Galicia(London:Streffington,1919),75.
[3] Graydon Tunstall,Blood on the Snow:The Carpathian Winter War of 1915(Lawrence:University Press of Kansas,2010),10.
[4] Kriegsarchiv,Vienna(KA),Gefechtsberichte(GB)1,“Die Kämpfe der Gruppe Hofmann in den Karpathen im Sept. und Okt.1914.”
[5] KA,Neue Feld Akten(NFA)910,Zakliczyn,Sept.28,1914,GM Krauss,“Widerrechtliche Benützung von Krankenzügen”;K.u.k. Kriegsministerium,Abt. 10,Vienna,Nov. 27,1914,GM Urban,“Transporte,deren Abgehen.”
[6] Rudolf Jerabek,“Die Brussilowoffensive 1916:Ein Wendepunkt der Koalitionskriegführung der Mittelmächte,” dissertation,Vienna,1982,12.
[7] Holger H.Herwig,The First World War:Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918(London:Edw.Arnold,1997),96.
[8] Holger H.Herwig,The First World War:Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918(London:Edw.Arnold,1997),95-96.
[9] Haus-,Hof-und Staatsarchiv,Vienna(HHSA),Politisches Archiv(PA)I,837,Munich,Nov.24 and Dec.8,1914,Oct.11,1915,Vélics to Berchtold.
[10] HHSA,PA I,837,Munich,Oct.22,1915,Vélics to Burián.
[11] HHSA,PA I,837,Munich,Nov.24,1915,Vélics to Burián.
[12] HHSA,PA I,842,Berlin,Oct.6 and Nov.8,1914,Hohenlohe to Berchtold.
[13] Norman Stone,The Eastern Front 1914-1917(London:Penguin,1998[1975]),96;Jerabek,“Brussilowoffensive,” 11.
[14] Ward Rutherford,The Tsar’s Army 1914-1917,2nd ed.(Cambridge:Ian Faulkner,1992),72,
[15] Stone,Eastern Front,96;Alfred Knox,With the Russian Army 1914-17(London:Hutchinson,1921),1:139-140;Rutherford,Tsar’s Army,75-76.
[16] John Morse,In the Russian Ranks(New York:Grosset and Dunlap,1918),258;Winston S.Churchill,The World Crisis:The Eastern Front(London:Thornton Butterworth,1931),85.
[17] Winston S.Churchill,The Unknown War(New York:Scribner,1931),76.
[18] Fedor Stepun,Wie war es möglich:Briefe eines russischen Offiziers(Munich:Carl Hanser Verlag,1929),22,31.
[19] Hew Strachan,The First World War,vol.1,To Arms(Oxford:Oxford University Press,2001),359;Gunther E.Rothenberg,The Army of Francis Joseph(West Lafayette,IN:Purdue University Press,1976),181.
[20] Stone,Eastern Front,93;Knox,With the Russian Army,1:xxix.
[21] Manfried Rauchensteiner,Der Tod des Doppeladlers:Österreich-Ungarn und der Erste Weltkrieg(Graz:Verlag Styria,1993),146-148;Herwig,First World War,107.
[22] Jerabek,“Brussilowoffensive,”13-15,18-22.
[23] Annika Mombauer,Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War(Cambridge:Cambridge University Press,2001),147-148.
[24] Capt.B.H.Liddell Hart,The Real War 1914-1918(Boston:Little,Brown,1963),125;Jerabek,“Brussilowoffensive,”24.
[25] Stone,Eastern Front,94-97.
[26] Harry Kessler,Journey to the Abyss:The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler,1880-1918,ed. and trans. Laird M.Easton(New York:Knopf,2011),655.
[27] C.R.M.F.Cruttwell,A History of the Great War 1914-1918(Chicago:Academy,2007[1934]),80.
[28] Rutherford,Tsar’s Army,78;Max Hoffmann,The War of Lost Opportunities(New York:International,1925),150.
[29] Kessler,Journey to the Abyss,657.
[30] Morse,In the Russian Ranks,118;Knox,With the Russian Army,1:146.
[31] Kessler,Journey to the Abyss,653.
[32] KA,NFA 1795,7 KpsKdo,Dobromil,Oct. 31,1914,GdI Meixner,“Geefechtsbericht über die Kämpfe bei Chyrow und Dobromil von 11 bis 24.Okt. 1914.”
[33] Rutherford,Tsar’s Army,77.
[34] Knox,With the Russian Army,1:ⅹⅹⅹⅲ;Rutherford,Tsar’s Army,74.
[35] KA,NFA 910,Krakau,Nov.14,1914,GdI Eh Joseph Ferdinand.
[36] Jerabek,“Brussilowoffensive,” 1.
[37] KA,NFA 1367,3.Armeekdo,Oct.29,1914,GdI Boroevic to corps. Jerabek,“Brussilowoffensive,” 1.
[38] KA,NFA 1794,5 Korpskdo,Wachok,Oct.28,1914,Maj. Aladar von Kovacs,“Bericht über Situation,Zustand etc. der Truppen des 37.LITD.”
[39] Kessler,Journey to the Abyss,654.
[40] KA,NFA 1794,1 Korpskdo,Chechlo,Nov.15,1914,GdK Kirchbach to GdK Dankl.
[41] HHSA,PA I,842,Dresden,Oct. 29,1914,Braun to Berchtold.
[42] Stürgkh,Im Deutschen Grossen Hauptquartier,132-133.
[43] Stone,Eastern Front,101.
[44] Stepun,Wie war es möglich,22.
[45] Stanley Washburn,On the Russian Front in World War I:Memoirs of an American War Correspondent(New York:Robert Speller,1982),96-97;Knox,With the Russian Army,1:167.
[46] KA,NFA 1868,Lt.Karl Popper,“Das Feldjägerbattalion Nr.6 im Weltkrieg 1914.”
[47] KA,NFA 1151,19.ITD Kdo,Jaroslau,Oct. 28,1914,Divisionskdobefehl Nr. 10,FML Lukas.
[48] Herwig,First World War,108;Stone,Eastern Front,123.
[49] KA,NFA 911,AOK,Nov.16,1914,“Schilderung der Meldentaten einzelner Truppenkörper und Personen für die Jugend.”
[50] HHSA,PA I,842,Berlin,Nov.12 and 17,1914,Hohenlohe to Berchtold.