John Charmley is professor of modern history at the University of East Anglia. Best known for his revisionist interpretation of British foreign policy in mid 20th century. Mr Charmley: The idea that Germany would have won and in the circumstances of 1914 after a six weeks war which is about what it would have taken, is simply counterfactual imagination. Of course he has to imagine that because if he doesn't imagine that then he has to admit the plain fact of the matter that the war was not worth fighting at all.

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