Lest We Forget

On the theme of Remembrance, the other day, this article is intriguing: Monbiot.com � Lest We Forget: It looks at the causes of the so-called "Great war" and shows that it could have been avoided, just maybe. Very interesting. "Could the Great War have been averted if, in 1911, the British government had done as Morel suggested? No one knows, as no such attempt was made. Far from seeking to broker a European peace, Britain, pursuing its self-interested diplomatic intrigues, helped to make war more likely. Germany was the aggressor; but the image of affronted virtue cultivated by Britain was a false one. Faced, earlier in the century, with the possibilities of peace, the old men of Europe had decided that they would rather kill their children than change their policies."
I'm also wondering whether there is an alternative history novel in this?