Germany's Aims in the First World WarThis professor's great work is possibly the most important book of any sort, probably the most important historical book, certainly the most controversial book to come out of Germany since the war. It had already forced the revision of widely held views in Germany's responsibility for beginning and continuing World War 1, and of supposed divergence of aim between business and the military on one side and labor and intellectuals on the other. |
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From great power policy | 3 |
The miscalculation | 50 |
From Bethmann | 95 |
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