Challenges beliefs that World War I was inevitable, documenting largely forgotten events in each of the warring countries to reveal how several factors may have prevented the war or caused a different outcome.

Germany : saber rule -- Russia : sea of tears -- England : Ulster will fight -- The United States and Mexico : the president and the bandit -- Austria-Hungary : Franz Ferdinand lives : a counterfactual -- France : the wages of imperialism -- The victory of the spade -- Home fronts I -- Home fronts II.