Inventing the Schlieffen Plan: German War Planning, 1871-1914. By Terence Zuber. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 340. $72.00.) For most of the last half-century, historians of the First World War and its origins have depicted the Schlieffen...

To the Editor: Editor's note: The correspondent, Dr. Terence Zuber, is author of "The Schlieffen Plan Reconsidered," in War in History (July 1999), and Inventing the Schlieffen Plan (Oxford 2003), which were alluded to in the article he comments upon. In...

Examines the reasons for the stalemate on the western front during World War I and the Moor attempts to break it. Describes the "Schlieffen Plan" and reasons why it was unsuccessful.