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Germany and the politics of blame for the First World War

German forces are mobilised in 1914 (Photo: Getty Images)

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John Keiger
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Professor John Keiger is the former research director of the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge. He is the author of France and the Origins of the First World War.

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