• DOI:10.1177/096834459900600302
Corpus ID: 159595202

The Schlieffen Plan Reconsidered

@article{Zuber1999TheSP,
  title={The Schlieffen Plan Reconsidered},
  author={T. Zuber},
  journal={War in History},
  year={1999},
  volume={6},
  pages={262 - 305}
}

T. Zuber

Published 1999

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War in History

he history of German war planning prior to the First World War thas been dominated by the 'Schlieffen plan', which was developed in a Denkschnft (study) written in early 1906 by the recently retired Chief of the German General Staff, Count Alfred von Schlieffen. Schlieffen's concept for this war plan was to deploy seven-eighths of the German army between Metz and Aachen, on the right wing of the German front, leaving one-eighth of the army to guard the left flank in Lorraine against a French… CONTINUE READING

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