Inventing the Schlieffen Plan
Subtitle: German War Planning 1871-1914
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: December 12, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780199250165
First sentence: The history of German war planning prior to the First World War has been dominated by the 'Schlieffen plan', which was developed in a Denkschrift (study) written in early 1906 by the recently retired Chief of the German General Staff, Count Alfred von Schlieffen.
Description: The existence of the Schlieffen Plan has been one of the basic assumptions of 20th-century military history. Terence Zuber challenges this assumption and presents a different picture of German war planning between 1871 and 1914. He concludes that there never really was a Schlieffen Plan.