Most of the cabinet in 19 forteen did not think that if germany won, the skies would fall in. To imagine that this ramshackle political settlement that bismark had cobbled together would have been able to exercise some kind of military dict ship over europe is the worst kind of counterfactual history. And i ask you to night, to repudiate a century of myth making and to vote in favour of the fact that britain should have stayed out of this ghastly foreign mess. I john. Bach.
For this week's Sunday Debate, we're dipping back into the archive to 2014, when we gathered a panel of expert historians to debate whether Britain was right to fight in the First World War, a tragedy that laid the foundations for decades of destructive upheaval and violence across Europe. To debate the issue, we invited leading historians Margaret MacMillan, Max Hastings, John Charmley and Dominic Sandbrook to an event hosted by journalist, columnist and national security expert, Edward Lucas.
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