Schlieffen Plan - International Perspectives on the German Strategy for World War I

Informationen zum 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung In this important volume! international scholars reassess Schlieffen's work for the first time in decades! offering new insights into the renowned general's impact not only on World War I but also on nearly a century of military historiography.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Hans (EDT)/ Epkenhans Ehlert, Hans Epkenhans Ehlert, Hans Gotthard Epkenhans Ehlert
• Collaboration: Hans Ehlert (Editeur), Hans Gotthard Ehlert (Editeur), Michael Epkenhans (Editeur), Gerhard P Gross (Editeur), Gerhard P. Groß (Editeur), David T Zabecki (Editeur), David T. Zabecki (Editeur)
• Edition: University Press of Kentucky
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 04.11.2014
• EAN: 9780813147468
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-4746-8
• Pages: 592
• Thèmes: Foreign Military Studies; Association of the United States Army Foreign Military Studies; Foreign Military Studies
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > 20e siècle (jusqu'en 1945); Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Théories de l'Etat et administration politique