Coming from the historian Niall Ferguson this is disengenious as he is know for putting a lot of blame on abritain and our foreign secretary Lord Grey in particular, but in a couple of paragraphs in a chapter titled ‘The Gamblers’ he clearly has reasons to feel there were a few too many Machiavellis in German politics machinating towards a conflict so that Germany too could have a chance at Greatness and Empire.

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