Inventing the Schlieffen Plan: German War Planning 1871-1914 Magnets Desperate to break out of

Desperate to break out of "Hellminden" and return to the fight

In the Mesopotamian desert during World War I

He destabilized the Iron Chancellor's foreign policy by failing to renew the Reinsurance Treaty with Russia

fraught with strategic failures and heavy losses

Mayhew allows readers to peer over the shoulder of the stretcher bearer who jumped into a trench and tried unsuccessfully to get a tightly packed line of soldiers out of the way

Inventing the Schlieffen Plan: German War Planning 1871-1914 Magnets Desperate to break out ofDescription by Terence Zuber Paperback The existence of the Schlieffen plan has been one of the basic assumptions of twentieth century military history. It was the perfect example of the evils of German militarism: aggressive, mechanical, disdainful of politics and of public morality. The Great War began in August 1914 allegedly because the Schlieffen plan forced the German government to transform a Balkan quarrel into a World War by attacking France.