The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1880-1914

Paul M. Kennedy

Allen & Unwin, 1979 - Europe - 282 pages

About the military plans of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Austro-Hungary towards the First World War.

About the author

Paul Kennedy is the author or editor of thirteen books, including "Preparing for the Twenty-first Century" and T"he Rise and Fall of the Great Powers," which has been translated into more than twenty languages. He serves on the editorial board of numerous scholarly journals and has written for "The New York Times," "Los Angeles Times," "The Atlantic Monthly," and several other publications. Educated at Newcastle University and Oxford University, he is a former fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University and of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in Bonn.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1880-1914
• Editor: Paul M. Kennedy
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 1979
• ISBN: 0049400568, 9780049400566
• Length: 282 pages