Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of maps
- Acknowledgements
- Hierarchy of ranks for officers in the German army before 1914
- List of abbreviations
- General map of Europe
- Introduction
- 1 Military decision-making in Wilhelmine Germany
- 2 Alfred von Schlieffen and Helmuth von Moltke: ‘military genius’ and ‘reluctant military leader’?
- 3 From crisis to crisis: the international background to military planning in the pre-war years
- 4 The July Crisis and the outbreak of war: the German perspective
- 5 The General Staff at war
- Conclusion. Myths and Realities: Helmuth von Moltke and the origins of the First World War
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2016
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of maps
- Acknowledgements
- Hierarchy of ranks for officers in the German army before 1914
- List of abbreviations
- General map of Europe
- Introduction
- 1 Military decision-making in Wilhelmine Germany
- 2 Alfred von Schlieffen and Helmuth von Moltke: ‘military genius’ and ‘reluctant military leader’?
- 3 From crisis to crisis: the international background to military planning in the pre-war years
- 4 The July Crisis and the outbreak of war: the German perspective
- 5 The General Staff at war
- Conclusion. Myths and Realities: Helmuth von Moltke and the origins of the First World War
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War , pp. xiii - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001