TO THE DEAD, THE MAIMED AND THE DUPED OF ALL NATIONS 1914 - 1919

Isn't that greatest ever dedication in a book?

To the dead, the maimed and the duped of all nations 1914 - 1919

This is the dedication in, A Searchlight on the European War, by C H Norman.

Norman lays the blame for WW1 at the feet of Sir Edward bleedin' Grey with assistance from the British monarchy and Freemasonry.

I'll quote verbatim a few paragraphs, referencing an unnamed high level Serbian diplomat, to encourage you to read it:

"King Edward, on the other hand, had felt a personal dislike, not only for the Kaiser Wilhelm, but had, at every opportunity, exhibited his unfriendly feeling for the German Empire. This encircling policy of King Edward was no phantom, nor an outgrowth of German fantasy, but a plan devised on big lines which had been crowned with success." These are mere expressions of opinion, but, coming from a high Serbian diplomatic source, they are, perhaps, worth weighing carefully.

...Our next inquiry relates to the position of the British Foreign Office in the ten years preceding the declaration of war by Britain on Germany. Apologists for the policy of Sir Edward Grey of the moderate Liberal school, like Professor Gilbert Murray, have contended that the former had conceived his diplomatic strategy in such a manner that there was no risk of Great Britain, through her obligation towards Russia and France, being drawn into a European war over Balkan squabbles. Yet the conduct of Sir Edward Grey after the annexation of Bosnia, as summarised by the Serbian diplomat, would appear to be directly calculated to embroil Europe in a Balkan crisis.

Recall that as Joseph Brewda reported, Great Britain established a Balkan Committee in 1903 to manipulate tensions in the Balkans.