The current dogma
concerning the origins of the First World War
supports the militarist myth that wars are caused by
stupid, evil, aggressive nations on the other side of
the world who refuse to get along with the
intelligent, good, peaceful people on this side.
This book attempts to
understand the real causes of war and to dissociate
propaganda from historical fact. By reviewing the
events of the pre-1914 period, the responsibility of
Germany for the outbreak of the war is reconsidered.
It begins with a short
account of the situation after the Franco-Prussian
War, when France was isolated and Germany secure in
the friendship of all the other Great Powers, and
proceeds to describe how France created an
anti-German coalition. The account of the
estrangement of England from Germany attempts to
correct the usual pro-British prejudice and to
explain the real causes of this development.
This book is unique in its
approach to the German Empire of 1871-1918. The
centrepiece of the work is the creation of the Triple
Entente.
Historian Edward
McCullough pulls no punches in this controversial
book. He offers new insights into the Great War.
--St. Catherine Standard
Table
of Contents
For 32 years, Edward E.
McCullough has taught as a university teacher in
Montrčal and he is currently Professor Emeritus at
Concordia University. He has spent the past fifteen
years working on this book; his research work on
European history which constitutes one of his main
fields of interests has already been published in two
reviews.
256 pages, bibliography,
index
Paperback ISBN: 1-55164-140-2 $28.99
Hardcover ISBN: 1-55164-141-0 $57.99
History
December 1998
