Maj. Gen. David T. Zabecki, editor of Vietnam magazine and author of several military history books, served as an infantry rifleman in Vietnam. After earning his commission, he was an operations officer, intelligence officer, and a chief of staff. In 2003 he was the senior security adviser on the U.S. co-ordinating and Monitoring Mission in Israel. He lives in Germany.
"The book concludes with a nearly two‐hundred‐page compilation of
excerpts from German deployment plans made between 1893 and 1914,
with accompanying fold‐out maps. This alone justifies the [...]
list price of the volume.Serious students of pre‐First World War
planning and the war's opening stages will find much that merits
careful reflection in The Schlieffen Plan." -- Michigan War Studies
Review
"The University Press of Kentucky deserves some kudos for producing
such a relatively lavishvolume.[...] Gross offers a master class in
historical provenance." -- H-Net Reviews
"A significant and timely contribution to our understanding of
World War I." -- Timothy Nenninger, former President, Society for
Military History
"A superb piece of writing and scholarship. This work allows German
historians to have their say on this uniquely German topic and thus
provides a new and significant perspective on the campaign in the
West in 1914 and the German plans for war." -- Robert B. Bruce,
Marine Corps Command and Staff College
"David T. Zabecki [...] has done a masterful job translating Der
Schlieffenplan [....] The translation is elegant and the
terminology professional." -- Journal of Military History
"This volume marks a major contribution to the body of scholarship
on thissubject." -- StrategyWorld.com
"Winner of the Arthur Goodzeit Book Award given by the New York
Military Affairs Symposium" --
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