Description: Featuring fold-out maps and abstracts of the original German deployment plans as they evolved from 1893 to 1914, this rigorous reassessment vividly illustrates how failures in statecraft as well as military planning led to the tragedy of the First World War.
Brief description: Hans Ehlert is a historian at the Bundeswehr Center of Military History and Social Sciences (ZMSBw) in Potsdam, Germany.
Review Quotes:
The book concludes with a nearly twohundredpage compilation of excerpts from German deployment plans made between 1893 and 1914, with accompanying foldout maps. This alone justifies the [. . .] list price of the volume. Serious students of preFirst World War planning and the war's opening stages will find much that merits careful reflection in The Schlieffen Plan.
-- "Michigan War Studies Review"