The coursework unit requires to undertake a vast amount of reading and research based on the origins of the First World War. Although you will have access to an online library once you begin the coursework, here are some of the main texts to get you started. All books have links to either Amazon or eBay. Any book with an * means we have a copy that you can potentially borrow. Please ask the department for further recommendations.
*Clark, Christopher (2013). The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. London: Penguin.
Ferguson, Niall (2009). The Pity of War. London: Penguin.
Fischer, Fritz (1961). Germany's Aims in the First Word War. New York: W.W Norton & Company.
*Joll, James and Martel, Gordon (2006). The Origins of the First World War. Abingdon: Routledge.
*Macmillan, Margaret (2014). The War That Ended Peace. London: Profile Books. Worth buying at under £10.00 and provides a decent overview of the causes of the First World War.
Mombauer, Annika (2013). The Origins of the First World War: Controversies and Consensus. Abingdon: Routledge
Neiburg, M (2011). Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I. Cambridge: Belknap Press.
Porter, I and Armour I (1991). Imperial Germany, 1890-1918. London: Longman.
Sheffield, Gary (2002). Forgotten Victory: The First World War: Myths and Realities. London: Headline Publishing.
Stevenson, David (2012). 1914-1918: The History of the First World War. London: Penguin.
*Turner, L.C.F (1970). Origins of the First World War. London: Hodder Arnold Publication.
Wehler, Hans Ulrich (1973). The German Empire, 1871-1918. Oxford: Berg Publishers.