Inventing the Schlieffen Plan by Terence Zuber
Employs German archival material to contend that the 'Schlieffen plan', a widely-accepted German military strategy of WWI, did not actually happen
Zuber's scholarly work will play an important role in the continuing debates on military planning and on its relationship to the coming of World War One* Journal of European Studies *
Zuber has produced an important work that throws much light on war planning and also on the process by which strategic interpretations become part of historiography. * Journal of European Studies *
Zuber's new work is undoubtedly intellectually exciting, and has opened up new fronts in military and diplomatic history. * Gary Sheffield, Times Literary Supplement *
the most important book on World War I in decades * Robert Citino, author of The German Way of War *
All the older literature now needs to be revised in the light of Zuber * Sir Hew Strachan, author of The First World War: To Arms *
Zuber has produced an important work that throws much light on war planning and also on the process by which strategic interpretations become part of historiography. * Journal of European Studies *
Zuber's new work is undoubtedly intellectually exciting, and has opened up new fronts in military and diplomatic history. * Gary Sheffield, Times Literary Supplement *
the most important book on World War I in decades * Robert Citino, author of The German Way of War *
All the older literature now needs to be revised in the light of Zuber * Sir Hew Strachan, author of The First World War: To Arms *
Terence Zuber is a retired United States Army Officer, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Würzburg.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198718055 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198718055 |
| Title | Inventing the Schlieffen Plan |
| Author | Terence Zuber |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2014-05-15 |
| Number of pages | 360 |
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