i just want to take issue with one point that sir max hastings keeps making, which is that there were no war mongers in britain at the time. I think he only needs to turn his left and speak to professor mc Millan who quotes jackie fisher as being aided by politicians from mounting a unilateral attack on the german navy. We'll come to your non find you whil i do my conon mati national ana. Any belgians here with a viewo whether we, whether they were grateful we went to war on them? So, no, no bell. Ri, open house again. Go ahead.
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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