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Mar 2014
52m 35s

“If you do not want to see God’s hand in...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Leeds University's Professor of Central European History, editor of An Improbable War?The Outbreak of World War I and European Politicsl Culture before 1914, views the war through the letters of one of the Kaiser's generals to his wife. 
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