July 1914: The Outbreak of the First World War - Selected Documents

400 pp. "...contains nearly two hundred documents, as well as extensive and pointed commentary on them by Dr. Geiss. The documents range from military position papers and ambassadors' confidential reports to the pathetic appeals for mediation which Tsar Nicholas II showered on his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II--appeals which the Kaiser rejected out of hand.... Whether or not it was justifiable, Dr. Geiss points out that war was a central facet of German policy in 1914."--jacket