Schlieffen Plan Schlieffen Plan The Schlieffen Plan (, ) was the name given, after the First World War, to German war plans and the influence of Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen and his thinking on the invasion of France and Belgium on 4 August 1914. Schlieffen was Chief of the General Staff of the German Army from 1891 to 1906. In 1905 and 1906, Schlieffen devised an army deployment plan for a war-winning offensive against the French Third Republic. After losing the First World War, German official historians of the and other writers described the plan as a blueprint for victory. (Colonel-General)
It Was the War of the Trenches in "RAW" and "Drawn and Quarterly" in the 1990s. In 2010 it was translated in English as "It Was the War of the Trenches" and published by Fantagraphics. It won two Eisner Awards for "Best Reality-Based Work" and "Best U.S. Edition of International Material". Tardi published another two-volume graphic novel about World War I named "Putain de Guerre" (2008, translated as "Fuck this War!"). It Was the War of the Trenches It Was the War of the Trenches (original title: "C'était la guerre des tranchées") is a 1993 graphic novel by Jacques Tardi about World War I. It is acclaimed