German War Planning

1891-1914

Sources and Interpretations


by

Terence Zuber

This is the 2004 Hardback First Edition


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Publisher and place of publication   Dimensions in inches (to the nearest quarter-inch)
Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press (Boydell & Brewer Ltd)   6 inches wide x 9½ inches tall
     
Edition   Length
2004  (Warfare in History series)   [vii] + 312 pages
     
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Original blue cloth blocked in gilt on the spine. The spine ends and corners are bumped and there are some small indentations along the edges of the boards.   There are no internal markings and the text is clean throughout. In Fine condition internally.
     
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German War Planning, 1891-1914

Contents

 

List of maps
Acknowledgements
Introduction


Part I:
German War Planning to 1914
1 Greiner: The German Intelligence Estimate in the West
2 Dieckmann: Der Schlieffenplan
3 Dommes: Operations against Russia


Part II:
Schlieffen’s Generalstabsreisen
4 1894 Ost: Tannenberg
5 1901 Ost
6 2nd 1902 Ost
7 1903 Ost
8 1st 1904 West


Part III:
The Great 1905 War Game


Part IV:
The ‘Schlieffen Plan’


Part V:
Moltke’s War Planning
9 Moltke's 1908 Generalstabsreise West


Part VI:
The German War Plan in August 1914
10 6th Army Aufmarschunweisung
11 5th Army Aufmarschunweisung
12 6th Army Evaluation of the Situation


Part VII:
The Birth of the Schlieffen Plan
14 The Development of the German Operational Concept


Part VIII:
The Schlieffen Plan Debate 1919-1930
15 1919: Hans Delbriick Criticizes the German War Plan
16 1920: Kuhl Reveals the Schlieffen Plan
17 1921: Delbruck Criticizes the Schlieffen Plan
18 1921: Foerster Defends the Schlieffen Plan
19 1920/1929: Groener Explains the Schlieffen Plan
20 1929: Ludendorff Critiques the Schlieffen Plan
The Schlieffen Plan Debate in War in History
Further Reading in English

Index

 


 Maps


1 German 1914 estimate of French deployment
2 Eastern Front
3 First 1904 Generalstabsreise West
4 November-December 1905 Kriegspiel Ost
5 November-December 1905 Kriegspiel West
6 Ritter's Schlieffen plan



German War Planning, 1891-1914

From the dust-jacket:

 

The great deficiency in the discussion of German war planning before the 1914-18 Great War has been the dearth of reliable primary sources. Very little was in the public domain before the German Reichsarchiv was destroyed in April 1945, and this problem is compounded for Anglophone historians by the fact that the most interesting secondary literature was printed in German periodicals in the early 1920s.

This book makes available in English translation many of the documents concerning German war planning before 1914 that survived the Second World War. They had been closely guarded by the East German army archives, and only became available with the fall of the Berlin wall.

Included are: Wilhelm Dieckmann's 'Der Schlieffenplan', assembled from archive sources; Hellmuth Greiner's account of the German west front intelligence estimate from 1885 to 1914; and two of the younger Moltke's General Staff exercises. The book also presents other little-known documents found in German archives as well as the most important 1920s literature concerning the debate on the German war plan.

The picture of German war planning which emerges from these documents is both more complex and more credible than previous analysis focused mainly on the 'Schlieffenplan' has allowed.
 



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