Who was responsible for the First World War?

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Who was responsible for the First World War?

Unlike almost any other conflict, the First World War has never loosened its grip on the scholarly or public imagination. More than a century after the last shots were fired in anger, its origins remain disputed, often vehemently so, and that debate is not likely to abate, let alone be settled, soon. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the two most authoritative surveys of the subject bear the suggestive subtitles of The long debate (John Langdon, 1991) and…