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The four-day Battle of Tannenberg ended with a humiliating Russian defeat as the czar’s troops threw down their weapons and ran for their lives.

The more we read about the Battle of Tannenberg, especially of course in Norman Stone’s wonderful book The Eastern Front, the more you realise there was a good deal of pure luck in that victory.

Fellow Moravian David Tannenberg feared that would “injure his livelihood,” so Antes was told to finish only the claviers he had begun for friends.

Ypres, Verdun, the Somme, Gallipoli and Tannenberg are names that live on in history books.

There’s also a model of the Cracow Tannenberg monument, depicting the victorious king at the top and the order’s fallen grandmaster at his feet.