Acknowledgements
This free course was written by Annika Mombauer, Vincent Trott and Stuart Mitchell and was first published in December 2023.
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Figure 6: John Röhl
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Figures 8 and 12: Christopher Clark
Figure 9: Annika Mombauer (ed.), The origins of the First World War: Diplomatic and Military Documents, Manchester University Press, Manchester 2013, Doc. No. 120, pp. 192-193.
Figure 10: © Peter Brookes Cartoon, The Times ‘A Blanket Cheque for War’ The Times, Ref 459670
Text
Mombauer, A; extract from The Origins of the First World War: Controversies and Consensus, Longman 2002
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