Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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

Reviews

`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