According to Richard J Evans, A J P Taylor was prone to making 'snap judgements' and "issued statements of seemingly dogmatic finality about complex historical issues, it is clear that these were intended to provoke his readers into thinking about the subject, rather than to bully them into believing that he was telling the absolute truth". p.108

"A J P Taylor used to delight in provoking more sober historians by positing tiny causes for vast events. The First World war, for instance, in his view was caused by railway timetables, because this locked the belligerent powers into a sequence of troop mobilisations and war declarations from which they could not escape". (Evans p132) citing (A J P Taylor, War by Timetable London. 1976)

I'm guessing its for an essay...