Terence Zuber

Terence Zuber is an American military historian specializing in the First World War. He received his doctorate from the University of Würzburg in 2001 after serving for twenty years as an infantry officer in the United States Army. He has advanced the controversial thesis that the Schlieffen Plan as generally understood was a post-World War I fabrication.

He first described his views about the Schlieffen Plan in a 1999 article in War in History, and further developed them in his 2002 book Inventing the Schlieffen Plan. Some scholars, such as Hew Strachan, have largely accepted his ideas, while others including Terence M. Holmes and Holger Herwig have dismissed them.

Works "The Schlieffen Plan Reconsidered," War in History, 6 (1999), pp. 262–305 Inventing the Schlieffen Plan: German War Planning, 1871–1914. Oxford University Press, 2002. "The Schlieffen Plan - Fantasy or Catastrophe?", History Today (2002). German War Planning, 1891-1914: Sources and Interpretations. Boydell Press, 2004. The Battle of the Frontiers. Ardennes 1914. Tempus, 2007. The Moltke Myth. Prussian War Planning 1857–1871 UPA, 2008. The Mons Myth. A Reevaluation of the Battle. 2010. The Real German War Plan 1904–1914 The History Press Ltd 2011. Ten Days in August, The Siege of Liege 1914 The History Press Ltd 2014.