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The Origins of the First World War: The Historical Debate Ruth Henig Lancaster University Starting from the war guilt clause of the Treaty of Versailles, Dr Ruth Henig leads the reader through the serpentine history of the outbreak of war debate, past the American historian Fay and his ‘reckless Germany’ interpretation, Lenin’s ‘imperialism’ and economic rivalries, through Albertini’s post-Second World War review, to the acceptance of the Fischer-based analysis. This widely accepted current view gives greater weight t