The Schlieffen Plan [electronic resource] : international perspectives on the German strategy for World War I / edited by Hans Ehlert, Gerhard Gross, and Michael Epkenhans ; English translation edited by Major General David T. Zabecki, USA (Ret.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the historiography of Schlieffen and the Schlieffen Plan / Hans Ehlert, Michael Epkenhans, and Gerhard P. Gross -- The sword and the scepter : the powers and the European system before 1914 / Klaus Hildebrand -- The Moltke Plan : a modified Schlieffen Plan with identical aims? / Annika Mombauer -- The Schlieffen Plan : a war plan / Robert T. Foley -- There was a Schlieffen Plan : new sources on the history of German military planning / Gerhard P. Gross -- "This trench and fortress warfare is horrible!" : the battles in Lorraine and the Vosges in the summer of 1914 / Dieter Storz -- The military planning of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Army and the Schlieffen Plan / Günther Kronenbitter -- French Plan XVII and the interdependence between foreign policy and military planning during the final years before the outbreak of the Great War / Stefan Schmidt -- Russian forces and the German buildup at the outbreak of world war i / Jan Kusber -- The southern envelopment : Switzerland's role in the Schlieffen and Moltke Plans / Hans Rudolf Fuhrer and Michael Olsansky -- The British Army, its general staff, and the Continental Commitment, 1904-1914 / Hew Strachan -- Belgium : operational plans and tactics of a neutral country / Luc de Vos -- Appendix : deployment plans, 1893-1914 -- Glossary of German military terms and acronyms.

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