Inventing the Schlieffen Plan

German War Planning 1871-1914
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-871805-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 547 g

The existence of the Schlieffen plan has been one of the basic assumptions of twentieth-century military history. It was the perfect example of the evils of German militarism: aggressive, mechanical, disdainful of politics and of public morality. The Great War began in August 1914 allegedly because the Schlieffen plan forced the German government to transform a Balkan quarrel into a World War by attacking France. And, in the end, the Schlieffen plan failed at the battle of the Marne.

Yet it has always been recognized that the Schlieffen plan included inconsistencies which have never been satisfactorily explained. On the basis of newly discovered documents from German archives, Terence Zuber presents a radically different picture of German war planning between 1871 and 1914, and concludes that, in fact, there never really was a 'Schlieffen plan'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zuber, Terence

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Inventing the Schlieffen plan

- 2: Moltke's Ostaufmarsch, 1871-1886

- 3: Fortresses, spies, and crisis, 1886-1890

- 4: Schlieffen's war plan, 1891-1905

- 5: Moltke's war plan, 1906-1914

- 6: Excuses and accusations

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Terence Zuber is a retired United States Army Officer, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Würzburg.