The Schlieffen Plan
International Perspectives on the German Strategy for World War I
With the creation of the Franco-Russian Alliance and the failure of the Reinsurance Treaty in the late nineteenth century, Germany needed a strategy for fighting a two-front war. In response, Field Marshal Count Alfred von Schlieffen produced a study that represented the apex of modern military planning. His Memorandum for a War against France, which incorporated a mechanized cavalry as well as new technologies in weaponry, advocated that Germany concentrate its field army to the west and annihilate the French army within a few weeks. For generations, historians have considered Schlieffen's writings to be the foundation of Germany's military…
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Weitere Autoren: Epkenhans, Michael (Hrsg.) / Gross, Gerhard P. (Hrsg.) / Zabecki, David T., PhD. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8131-4746-8
- EAN: 9780813147468
- Produktnummer: 16286953
- Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 592 S.
- Masse: H23.9 cm x B16.5 cm x D4.4 cm 1'036 g
- Abbildungen: 10 b&w photos, 12 maps, 37 tables
- Gewicht: 1036
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Hans Ehlert, Michael Epkenhans, and Gerhard P. Gross are historians at the Bundeswehr Center of Military History and Social Sciences (ZMSBw) in Potsdam, Germany.Major General David T. Zabecki, USA (Ret.), is the author of The German 1918 Offensives: A Case Study in the Operational Level of War and editor in chief of the four-volume encyclopedia Germany at War: 400 Years of Military History. He is an honorary senior research fellow in the War Studies Programme at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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