i would argue that britain had reason to fight the first world war. Dominic sandbrook and john charmley have both talked about how we must have hard historical facts. What they've also done is turn their faces firmly against counter factuals. We see a picture of a happy europeunited kaiser, wilhelm the second,. A sort of banky moon of the continentsmiling benevolently around. I am joseph gerbles, joseph homan gering's father, actualy the governor of southwest africa. But that is the side i'm not going to go intoCounter factuals. Let us remember what the world was like in 19 14 -