Inventing the Schlieffen Plan: German War Planning 1871-1914 Magnets In the Mesopotamian desert during

In the Mesopotamian desert during World War I

Despite having built Eastern into a major carrier

fraught with strategic failures and heavy losses

From 1915 through the early 1920s

Mayhew allows readers to peer over the shoulder of the stretcher bearer who jumped into a trench and tried unsuccessfully to get a tightly packed line of soldiers out of the way

Inventing the Schlieffen Plan: German War Planning 1871-1914 Magnets In the Mesopotamian desert duringDescription by Terence Zuber Paperback The existence of the Schlieffen plan has been one of the basic assumptions of twentieth century military history. It was the perfect example of the evils of German militarism: aggressive, mechanical, disdainful of politics and of public morality. The Great War began in August 1914 allegedly because the Schlieffen plan forced the German government to transform a Balkan quarrel into a World War by attacking France.