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because of the footnotes incl. in the page count this is where the book in fact ends. the last chapter is genuinely nauseating to read, feels like a tragicomedy a la *death of stalin,* full of grown men, counts and foreign ministers, openly weeping, screaming at each other, making horrible errors. clark's overall thesis of contingency lends rather than takes away from this final sense of inevitability.
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"[Bülow's] contradictory utterances on the subject [Weltpolitik] suggest that it was little more than the old policy of the 'free hand' with a larger navy and more menacing mood music. 'We are supposed to be pursuing Weltpolitik,' the former chief of the General Staff Alfred von Waldersee noted grumpily in his diary in January 1900. 'If only I knew what that was supposed to be.'"
— Apr 13, 2026 09:53AM
