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Who was to blame for the first world war? Germany. In Britain, the historian A.J.P. Taylor wrote a book called The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, in which he claimed that German ambitions caused the conflict: [The German] bid for continental supremacy was certainly decisive in bringing on the European War ... A.J.P. Taylor, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe(1954) About the same time, a book by the Italian journalist Luigi Albertini - The origins of the War of 1914 - became available in English. Albertini's ideas supported AJP Taylor's in as much as he believed that the primary responsibility for the war lay with Germany's plan of mobilization. Unlike other countries' mobilization plans, the Schlieffen Plan was offe...