16 million people were killed in this conflict, twice the population of london to day. And i totally take the point of dominic sanbro, that i think this would have been a much swiftera war hadiain not been involved. I put it to youe gentleman, just whos been patiently standing byhind i mean to commit the crime of doing both an emotional and a counterfactual argument in once. So sorry for that. But i think we as slightly forgetting the fact that, of course, 16 million people died in this conflict,. Twice the population of Londons to day. It was at the worst possible time in terms of technological development when both sides
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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