Fritz Fischer
Germany's Aims in the First World War.
W. W. Norton & Company, 1967. First printing. Translation of "Grif nach Weltmacht" (Droste Verlag, 1961), with an introduction by Hajo Holborn and James Joll. xxviii/652 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering and red pictorial design to spine. Book displays very faint stains to lower third of front cover. Volume is otherwise in fine condition. Dust jacket, with price of $15 on front flap, displays very light shelfwear.
"Professor Fischer's great work is possibly the most important book of any sort, probably the most important historical book, certainly the most controversial book, to come out of Germany since the war. Its German edition has already forced the revision of widely held views of Germany's responsibility for beginning and continuing World War I, and of supposed divergence of aim between business and the military on one side and labor and intellectuals on the other."