War Planning 1914

This tightly focused collection of essays by international experts in military history reassesses the 1914 war plans of Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Russia in a broad diplomatic, military, and political setting for the first time in three decades and explores their demise in the opening months of World War I. This is the first such undertaking since Paul Kennedy's groundbreaking War Plans of the Great Powers (1979), and the end result is breathtaking in both scope and depth of analysis.