"The Scblieffen Plan must rank as one of the supreme idiocies of modern times . . . It restricted the actions of the German government disastrously. In July 1914 they had just two choices; either to abandon the only plan they had to win the next war, or to go to war immediately."
Historian DE Marshall in The Great War: Myth and Reality, 1988.
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"The Scblieffen Plan must rank as one of the supreme idiocies of modern times . . . It restricted the actions of the German government disastrously. In July 1914 they had just two choices; either to abandon the only plan they had to win the next war, or to go to war immediately."
Historian DE Marshall in The Great War: Myth and Reality, 1988.
"the reactions of ordinary people in the crisis of 1914 were the result of the history they had learnt
at school, the stories about the national past which they had been told as children and an
instinctive sense of loyalty and solidarity with their neighbours and workmates. In each country,
children were taught the duties of patriotism and the glory of past national achievements … In
each country children were being taught to take pride in their historical tradition and to respect
what were regarded as characteristic national virtues … [The] reactions in 1914 … and the
patriotic language with which the war was greeted reflected the sentiments of a national tradition
absorbed over many years."
James Joll, The Origins of the First World War (Longman, 1992), p.221.