Monatsarchive: Mai 2018

A hundred years of German philosophy went into the making of this decision in which the seed of self-destruction lay embedded, waiting for its hour. The voice was Schlieffen’s, but the hand was the hand of Fichte who saw the … Weiterlesen →

While reading Tuchman’s Guns of August I started researching the Schlieffen Plan to find that Tuchman’s take on German strategy, which was what I was taught in the 1980s and seems to have been the generally received truth in the US … Weiterlesen →