The man behind the Great Plan: Alfred Von Schlieffen
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By Traci Morrisette. The ManThanks for reading Digging into the Great War! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. There are hundreds of quotes that sentimentalize how a man’s legacy can narrowed down to a philosophy, idea or in the case of Alfred Graf Von Schlieffen, a plan. Schlieffen himself is not remembered in the same way as his contemporaries. Bringing up the Schlieffen Plan is likely to drive debate on tactics, plausible variations, alternate histories, but little about the actual man himself.
The man behind the Great Plan: Alfred Von Schlieffen
The man behind the Great Plan: Alfred Von…
The man behind the Great Plan: Alfred Von Schlieffen
By Traci Morrisette. The ManThanks for reading Digging into the Great War! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. There are hundreds of quotes that sentimentalize how a man’s legacy can narrowed down to a philosophy, idea or in the case of Alfred Graf Von Schlieffen, a plan. Schlieffen himself is not remembered in the same way as his contemporaries. Bringing up the Schlieffen Plan is likely to drive debate on tactics, plausible variations, alternate histories, but little about the actual man himself.