In august 19 14 very few cabinet ministers agreed with sir max's line, asquith feared that more than half the cabinet would resign. The russians were the real threat to british power. This is about britain's national interests. And most of the cabinet were right. They were worrying about famana and tyro. Britain was on the verge of civil war, civil war over ireland. It allows politicians to distract themselves from the impending civil war.
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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