Was Germany primarily responsible for the outbreak of the Great War?

The Great War was the turning point in European if not global history; it was the starting point of the most violent century humankind has ever known. Over the past ninety-one years historians have become almost obsessive in the search to explain who was responsible for causing the Great War. Many historians spent their life searching for an answer that never truly came. In deciding wether or not Germany was primarily responsible for causing the …

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