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Christmas 1913: In Britain, people are debating a new boogie called 'the tango'. In Germany, they are simply fascinated by the wedding of the Kaiser's little girl to the Duke of Brunswick. Little do they know that their world was on 'The Eve of War', a catastrophe that was to engulf the continent, cost an incredible number of lives, and change the span of the century. Yet behind the displays, the Great Capabilities were marching towards what they thought was an inescapable conflict. Within this controversial and concise article, the military services historian Paul Ham argues that the First World War had not been an historical fault, a issue into which the Great Capabilities stumbled unintentionally. Nor was it a justified war, where uncontained German hostility had to be defeated. Instead the politicians and generals of the day willed the war, and prepared for this - but eventually found themselves caught up in an inferno they could no more control. Paul Ham is the writer of the forthcoming 1914: THE ENTIRE YEAR the entire world Ended, to be posted by Random House in Britain in 2014. He has recently written the acclaimed Sandakanz, Kokoda, Vietnam: The Australian War and Hiroshima Nagasaki. A previous Australia Correspondent of the Weekend Times, he was born in Sydney and informed in Australia and Britain. He now lives in Sydney and Paris.
