We're not here to talk about the origins of the first world war. And we're not also not going to talk about who's to blame. So if you're dying to come out with your theory ut how the agadea crisis was mishandled, or the role of the first, second and third balkan wars, save it for the discussion in the bar afterwards. We'll have a brisk interchange from the floor and discussion on the panel, and then you'll vote. But you've come to hear the panel, not me.
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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