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From: "Steve Morse" <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] German/Austrian
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:54:18 -0000
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Hello Samantha
A good book which may be available in Libraries is " Dreadnought, Britain,
Germany, and the Coming of the Great War" by Robert K. Massie - ISBN
0-224-03260-7.
It is a fairly large book but once into it, well worth a read.
Views on 'who takes the blame' are as numerous as Great War historians !
I personally blame the Russian Railway's. Once mobilisation started on the
Russian railways, it could not be stopped. This caused everyone else to
carry on towards war as well.
Britain's little know treaty with Belgium was a good excuse for the
Government to join in as well.
British Governments then and now, cannot resist sticking their noses in when
a good war is in the offing.
Finally, some might argue that in 1914 the British actually joined the wrong
side - but that's another story.

regards
Steve
Born in Derbyshire and sent to Coventry

all things DRING -
www.dring.org.uk

People ask me what my religion is.
I tell them, 'My religion is kindness'

They ask me were I've been,
and what I've done and seen,
but what can I reply,
who knows it wasn't I,
but someone just like me
who went across the sea,
that with my head and hands
Killed men in Foreign lands
Though I must bear the blame
because he bore my name



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