Ebook: The outbreak of World War I: causes and responsibilities

The coming of War -- The mood of 1914 / James Joll -- Europe on the eve of the First World War / Michael Howard -- The short-war illusion / L.L. Farrar, Jr. -- The primacy of domestic politics / Arno J. Mayer -- Domestic factors in German foreign policy / Wolfgang J. Mommsen -- The outbreak of war: July 1914 -- 1914-Serbia opts for war / Joachim Remak -- Austria-Hungary opts for war / Samuel R. Williamson, Jr. -- 1914: Germany opts for war, "now or never" / Fritz Fischer -- In the eye of the storm: Kurt Riezler / Wayne C. Thompson -- War euphoria in Germany in 1914 / Wolfgang Kruse -- Russia accepts a general war / D.C.B. Lieven -- The liberals muddle through to war / Zara Steiner -- The question of war guilt -- The charge: German war guilt / commission on war guilt (1919) -- 1914: Delusion or design? -- The Fischer "controversy" and German war guilt / Imanuel Geiss -- Anti-Fischer: a new war-guilt thesis? / Gerhard Ritter -- World War I as galloping Gertie / Paul W. Schroeder -- The Legacy -- Patriotic self-censorship in Germany / Holger H. Herwig.