The German Failure in Belgium, August 1914: How Faulty Reconnaissance Exposed the Weakness of the Schlieffen Plan

ISBN-13: 9781476674629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 225 str.

Dennis Showalter; Joseph P. Robinson; Janet A. Robinson

Opis

Demonstrates that it was structural failures at the sharp end that frustrated the Germans in the First Worls War's most crucial initial campaign: the invasion of Belgium. Routinization in planning, command, and execution led to groupthink, to inflexibility, to belief that "It'll be all right on the night."