Without knowing how and why the First World War was conceived, how it began, continued and ended, it is impossible to understand what is happening in the world today. At the same time, the political history of the First World War is interesting and instructive in itself. Sergei Kremlev restores the secret background of what happened before the eyes of hundreds of millions of people, and shows what forces moved the world on the eve of the 20th century and at its beginning, why the First World War happened, who why did you prepare it? He reveals the technology by which Russians and Germans were pitted against each other for the first time. This clash, unnecessary neither Russia nor Germany, was organized by the "Golden International" of financiers in the interests of the future world domination of America. Among the historical figures present on the pages of the book are Emperors Nicholas II and William II, public politicians Lloyd George, Clemenceau, Bismarck, US President Wilson, “behind-the-scenes” figures: the “gray reverence” of the German Foreign Ministry Baron Holstein, international arms dealer Basil Zakharov, the “gray colonel” from the USA Mandel House, as well as: British Foreign Minister Sir Edward Gray, financiers Witte and the Rothschilds, Russian military agent in Scandinavia and Paris, Count Ignatiev, head of the Jewish community of St. Petersburg - stoker of the guards barracks, sergeant major Oshansky, and many others... A new, and at the same time fascinating, look at the prehistory, history and “after-history” of the old war is the essence of Sergei Kremlev’s book.