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The war was won, but subsequently the peace was lost. It would take a second, even more destructive war to do away with the German threat. For all these reasons I must conclude, reluctantly, that from the UK’s perspective the outcome of the war in 1918 was worth the sacrifice. Gary Sheffield is professor of war studies at the University of ...
- The War Guilt Ruling
- The Fischer Thesis
- Recent Revisions
For the victors, this was an easy question to answer, and they agreed at the peace conference at Versailles in 1919 that Germany and its allies had been responsible for causing the Great War. Based on this decision, vast reparation demands were made. This so-called ‘war guilt ruling’ set the tone for the long debate on the causes of the war that fo...
The first major challenge to this interpretation was advanced in Germany in the 1960s, where the historian Fritz Fischer published a startling new thesis which threatened to overthrow the existing consensus. Germany, he argued, did have the main share of responsibility for the outbreak of the war. Moreover, its leaders had deliberately unleashed th...
In recent years this post-Fischer consensus has in turn been revised. Historians have returned to the arguments of the interwar years, focusing for example on Russia’s and France’s role in the outbreak of war, or asking if Britain’s government really did all it could to try and avert the war in 1914. Germany’s and Austria-Hungary’s roles are again ...
Feb 12, 2014 · World War One: 10 interpretations of who started WW1. 12 February 2014. Alamy. Royal cousins Wilhelm II and King George V went to war. As nations gear up to mark 100 years since the start of World ...
Dan Snow:Looking into the Great War, one of the myths you encounter is that the British upper classes dodged the worst of it. Dan Snow:They were the generals who planned attacks from the safety of ...
A series of short films looking at how World War One changed society and women's lives. In this series of short films, Jeremy Paxman looks at how World War One transformed the lives of the British ...
World War I was a conflict that not only consumed the lives of the soldiers in the trenches and battlefields, but also had a powerful impact on the hearts and minds of millions at home. This was done through the strategic use of propaganda. The proactive manipulation of people's attitudes through the media played a surprisingly pivotal role in ...
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World War I[j] or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting took place mainly in Europe and the Middle East, as well as in parts of Africa and the Asia-Pacific, and in Europe was characterised by ...
