The Schlieffen Plan : international perspectives on the German strategy for World War I /

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"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 militar...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Ehlert, Hans Gotthard (Éditeur intellectuel), Epkenhans, Michael (Éditeur intellectuel), Gross, Gerhard Paul, 1958- (Éditeur intellectuel), Zabecki, David T. (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Alemán
Publié: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2014]
Édition:English-language edition.
Collection:Foreign military studies.
Sujets:
Schlieffen, Alfred, > Graf von, > 1833-1913.
Schlieffen, Alfred, > Graf von, > 1833-1913
1900-1999
Schlieffen Plan.
Strategy.
Military planning > Germany.
World War, 1914-1918 > Germany.
World War, 1914-1918 > France.
Plan Schlieffen.
Stratégie.
Planification militaire > Allemagne.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Allemagne.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > France.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Military planning
Schlieffen Plan
Strategy
Germany > History, Military > 20th century.
Allemagne > Histoire militaire > 20e siècle.
France
Germany
Military history
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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