i think am the uk. Way of life was, this is what people thought they were fighting for at the time. And you know, oh, what a lovely war is. Is is interesting, i think, because it was done with a very anti war sentiment. But in fact, socialists all over europe flocked to the colors for their own countries. We don't have to agree with it, we must understand. I canand wiu take one more question. For those that are for how would britain should have reacted if germany had controlled france post that event? For those against,If germany hadn't gone to france through belg
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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