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    "description": "<p>\u2018The time of the great debates about the origins of the Great War is over,\u2019 German historian Oliver Janz wrote in 2013; but nothing proved less true. German historian Fritz Fischer had already, in the 1960s, caused a \u2018controversy\u2019 by attributing to Germany a \u2018substantial\u2019 and even a \u2018decisive\u2019 share in the outbreak of the war; but his work was only based on German sources. We had to wait till the early 21st century before academic studies appeared about the Russian (in 2011) and the French (in 2015) war aims!\nOnly now are we able to create a balanced image of the initial, the continued and the decisive responsibilities for the outbreak of that war. There were many attempts to blame Germany mainly or solely for it: from Article 231 in the Treaty of Versailles to recent encyclopaedia articles. But next to this were dissident voices, who pointed to one-sided or mistaken representations in a century of historiography about the outbreak of the war. \nOn that War is one of those voices, based on a years\u2019 long reading of the relevant studies in German, English, French and Dutch. It is an international and comparative approach to the subject that has been neglected too often up till now. In doing so it becomes clear why French President Poincar\u00e9 called his dog \u2018Bismarck\u2019. And a lot more\u2026</p>",
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