The author's findings will cause readers to reconsider long accepted "truths" about military planning before World War II and to reevaluate some of the now fift

The origins of the First World War remain one of the greatest twentieth century historical controversies. In this debate the role of military planning in partic

Before the First World War, the British Admiralty conceived a plan to win rapid victory in the event of war with Germany-economic warfare on an unprecedented sc

This collection of essays by international experts in military history reassesses the war plans of 1914 in a broad diplomatic, military, and political setting.