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ISBN13: 9798326028013
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 18 2024
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 18 2024
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This is not a standard history book. Conventional histories are cautious creatures: they hedge, qualify, footnote, and defer. They nod dutifully to the complexity of the historiographical debate before retreating behind layers of academic decorum. Written for tenure committees and peer reviewers, they reach the wider public-if they reach it at all-only after their sharp edges have been carefully sanded down by the academy.
This is a pamphlet. It stands in a proud, older tradition.When Thomas Paine sat down in late 1775 to write Common Sense, he was not unearthing fresh archival discoveries. The facts of British colonial policy were already widely known. What the moment demanded was not more evidence, but an argument-clear, unapologetic, stripped of equivocation-for ordinary readers who deserved a straight answer to a stark question: whose side does the evidence actually favour?
The case presented here for British, French, and Russian responsibility for the outbreak of the First World War is offered in much the same spirit. The essential documentary record of July-August 1914-the telegrams, cabinet minutes, diplomatic dispatches, and even some intelligence files-has been open to scholars for decades. Revisionist interpretations have been advanced with care and rigour by historians from Sidney Fay in the 1920s to Christopher Clark in the 2010s.
Yet the public narrative, especially in the Anglophone world, has barely budged. It still rests on assumptions shaped by popular accounts that portray the Kaiser as a proto-Hitler and Germany as the singular aggressor.This pamphlet exists to fill precisely that gap: the widening chasm between what the evidence reveals about the origins of the Great War and what most people still believe. At a time when the shadow of another global conflict looms once again, it aims to tell a deeply complex story in plain, readable language.
A handful of decisions can ignite a world war. Alliances function as transmission belts for escalation. Intelligence agencies rarely act with transparency. And false-flag operations have always been among the oldest tools in the statecraft playbook.
The case presented here for British, French, and Russian responsibility for the outbreak of the First World War is offered in much the same spirit. The essential documentary record of July-August 1914-the telegrams, cabinet minutes, diplomatic dispatches, and even some intelligence files-has been open to scholars for decades. Revisionist interpretations have been advanced with care and rigour by historians from Sidney Fay in the 1920s to Christopher Clark in the 2010s.
Yet the public narrative, especially in the Anglophone world, has barely budged. It still rests on assumptions shaped by popular accounts that portray the Kaiser as a proto-Hitler and Germany as the singular aggressor.This pamphlet exists to fill precisely that gap: the widening chasm between what the evidence reveals about the origins of the Great War and what most people still believe. At a time when the shadow of another global conflict looms once again, it aims to tell a deeply complex story in plain, readable language.
A handful of decisions can ignite a world war. Alliances function as transmission belts for escalation. Intelligence agencies rarely act with transparency. And false-flag operations have always been among the oldest tools in the statecraft playbook.
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