Review: This is an older history, but still worth reading.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 27, 2014
This book works through the war plans and the railroad & road limitations that constrained them. It is a good overview of what happened & what went wrong. One conclusion is telling: 45 years before the Franco-Prussian war was basically operated by infantry & horse drawn cavalry. Additionally, the industrial production of rapid fire arms (bolt action rifles & machine guns) as well as high power cannon in the field weren't there. By WW2, 25 years later, the advance to mechanized troop travel (tanks, armored cars, and mass trucks) allowed the combatants to move to and across the battlefield much faster. Thus, WW1 was at the confluence of advanced weapons without the advantage of rapid and advanced transport.All in all, a good and satisfactory introduction to went wrong at the start of the war. Well worth reading both for the casual reader and the serious student of WW1.