The Burden of Guilt

A military historian’s “thought-provoking” examination of Germany’s role in the outbreak of the First World War ( Soldier Magazine ). The conflagration that consumed Europe in August 1914 had been a long time in coming—and yet it need never have happened at all. For though all the European powers were prepared to accept a war as a resolution to the tensions which were fermenting across the Continent, only one nation wanted war to come: Imperial Germany. Of all the countries caught up in the tang