Zuber's scholarly work will play an important role in the continuing debates on military planning and on its relationship to the coming of World War One. Journal of European Studies Zuber has produced an important work that throws much light on war planning and also on the process by which strategic interpretations become part of historiography. Journal of European Studies Zuber's new work is undoubtedly intellectually exciting, and has opened up new fronts in military and diplomatic history. Gary Sheffield, Times Literary Supplement