From: The Historian | Date: January 1, 1994| Author: Flockerzie, Lawrence J. | COPYRIGHT 1994 Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

By Graydon A. Tunstall Jr. (Boulder, Colo.: Social Science Monographs, 1993. Pp. viii, 373.$53.00.)

The inability of the European great powers to successfully execute their war plans in July and August 1914 represents one of the most consequential failures of modern military leadership. The mistakes, miscalculations, and illusions of the various general staffs helped set the stage for a catastrophic, four-year struggle that left both victor and vanquished irreparably dam...