The outbreak of the First World War. A.J.P.Taylor. How wars begin. 1977.

A.J.P.Taylor attacks the view that Germany deliberately sought war in 1914 and argues that military railway timetables were the crucial factor. He also casts doubt on the view that Britain had a treaty obligation to protect Belgium.
One of a series of six talks by A.J.P. Taylor entitled 'How Wars begin' :
1. The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
2. The Crimean War and the war of national liberation in Italy.
3. Prussia's conflicts under Bismarck, including the Prusso-Austrian War in 1866 and the Franco-Prussian War in 1870.
4. The First World War.
5. The Second World War.
6. The Cold War.