Sidney Bradshaw Fay

Sidney Bradshaw Fay was an American historian whose examination of the causes of World War I, The Origins of the World War , remains a classic study. In this book, which won him the 1928 George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association, Fay argued that Germany was too readily blamed for the war and that a great deal of the responsibility instead rested with the Allies, especially Russia and Serbia. His stance is supported by several modern scholars, such as Christopher Clark, but it remains controversial.