This week's intelligence squared is brought to you by google. Im connor boyle joins a panel of expert historians to debate whether britain was right to fight in the first world war. In 20 teen, it was a timely topic, with that year marking 100 years since the conflict first began and over 886 thousand British military personnel died.
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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