Part I. Analysis and assessment. The problem
The outbreak of war
Explaining causes
The Great Powers to 1900
The Triple Alliance
The Dual Alliance
Great Britain
The European crisis
The diplomatic revolution
The vortex of south-eastern Europe
The July crisis
Assessment
Part II. Documents. The Dual Alliance
The Triple Alliance
The Reinsurance Treaty
Bismarck's eastern policy
The kaiser and Bismarck's departure
The 'Willy-Nicky' correspondence
The Franco-Russian Alliance
The Franco-Russian Military Convention
The 'Kruger telegram'
The Tirpitz Memorandum of June 1897
Germany and 'world policy'
Economic parasites of imperialism
The Anglo-Japanese Alliance
Schlieffen and the Russian army
Germany, Britain and Morocco
The Manifesto of Futurism
The Black Hand
Russia, Britain and Persia
Capitalism in the Balkans
France and Belgium, January 1912
Russia's Balkan policy
Lloyd George's Mansion House speech
The 'War Conference' of December 1912
Germany, Sir Edward Grey and foreign policy
Germany's strategic situation in May 1914
English opinion and the Triple Entente
Germany and the assassination
Will Germany restrain Austria?
The Kaiser's 'blank cheque' to Austria
The aftermath of the assassination
Germany's Balkan policy
Russia and the threat of revolution
The policy of Sir Edward Grey
The Austrian ultimatum
Italy and the breakdown of the Triple Alliance
Serbia's reply to the ultimatum
Britain's response to the Serbian reply
Germany's response to the Serbian reply
The Russian mobilization
Germany and the next war.