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Entry: An Urgent Matter Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/an_urgent_matter#22218 Post contents: Paul, Bravo, Paul. Taki, please take action. Like others, I look forward to your reviews, especially of the Terrence Zuber book. Not enough work has been published that treats the build-up to the Great War from the German point of view. Years ago, I taught European history at a small college in Massachusetts. I used to tell the students that the Schlieffen Plan required such precision that it had to work perfectly or it wouldn't work at all. Unfortunately, it didn't work. If it had, think how many lives would have been spared before a treaty was negotiated and everyone returned to their pre-war borders, a la 1871. After the Plague, the Great War was the greatest human tragedy of the past millenium. Sent at: 2008 10 13