hat are the major debates among historians concerning the interpretation of the events/phenomena in question? Do you find one interpretation particularly persuasive.
2. Do you believe that putting the German case in comparison with similar developments in other countries might prove useful in explaining their significance?
The following books are to be read:
Roger Chickering, Imerial Germany and the Great War (2nd ed. Cambridge, 2004)
Holger H. Herwig, The First World War: Germany and Austris-Hungray (London, 1997)
Matrin Kitchen, The Silent Dictatorship: The Politics of the German High Command under Hindenburg and Ludendorff (New York, 1976)
3. How might developments have followed a different path? How much are the events/phenomena the result of deeper, structural forces, and how much result of conscious decision making?
