War of Illusions

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| author = Fritz Fischer

| title_orig = Krieg der Illusionen

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| subject = World War I

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| pub_date = 1969

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| dewey = 327.43

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War of Illusions: German policies from 1911 to 1914 is a book by German historian Fritz Fischer, first published in German in 1969 as Krieg der Illusionen.{{cite journal | doi=10.3138/cjh.10.1.105 | title=The Short-War Illusion: German Policy, Strategy & Domestic Affairs August-December 1914 , by L. L. Farrar, Jr | date=1975 | last1=Burdick | first1=C. B. | journal=Canadian Journal of History | volume=10 | pages=105–106 }}{{cite journal | jstor=1852148 | last1=Kitchen | first1=Martin | last2=Farrar | first2=L. L. | title=Reviewed work: The Short-War Illusion: German Policy, Strategy & Domestic Affairs, August-December 1914, L. L. Farrar, Jr | journal=The American Historical Review | date=1975 | volume=80 | issue=5 | pages=1352–1353 | doi=10.2307/1852148 }}{{cite journal | jstor=40201485 | last1=Koch | first1=H. W. | last2=Farrar | first2=L. L. | title=Reviewed work: The Short-War Illusion; German Policy, Strategy & Domestic Affairs August-December 1914, L. L. Farrar Jr | journal=International Journal | date=1974 | volume=29 | issue=4 | pages=670–672 | doi=10.2307/40201485 }}

Along with Fischer's Germany's Aims in the First World War, the book argues for German responsibility for the outbreak of the First World War.