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The author scrutinizes the public justifications and memoirs offered by wartime leaders for the outbreak of the great conflict, following developments from the preparation of an ultimatum and its delivery to Serbia, through Berlin's mediation attempts, to what he characterizes as an imposed war and the eventual collapse of wartime falsehoods. Combining documentary critique with personal journalistic testimony and prior warnings suppressed by censorship, he contends that postwar memoirs perpetuate propaganda by recasting responsibility. The work exposes inconsistencies in official accounts and reconstructs political decision-making and public persuasion that led into and attempted to explain the conflict.