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Introduction: The Historiography of Schlieffen and the Schlieffen Plan
The Sword and the Scepter: The Powers and the European System before 1914
The Moltke Plan: A Modified Schlieffen Plan with Identical Aims?
The Schlieffen Plan—A War Plan
There Was a Schlieffen Plan: New Sources on the History of German Military Planning
“This Trench and Fortress Warfare Is Horrible!” The Battles in Lorraine and the Vosges in the Summer of 1914
The Military Planning of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Army and the Schlieffen Plan
French Plan XVII: The Interdependence between Foreign Policy and Military Planning during the Final Years before the Outbreak of the Great War
Russian Forces and the German Buildup at the Outbreak of World War I
The Southern Envelopment: Switzerland’s Role in the Schlieffen and Moltke Plans
The British Army, Its General Staff, and the Continental Commitment, 1904–1914
Belgium: Operational Plans and Tactics of a Neutral Country
Appendix: Deployment Plans, 1893–1914
Glossary of German Military Terms and Acronyms
List of Contributors
Index

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