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The Sunday Debate: Britain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War

Jul 31, 2022

01:36:16

Episode guests

Margaret MacMillan

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The First World War - The Crisis in August 1914

02:08

The War That Ends Peace, the Road to 19 14

02:42

Did the British Want to Let Germany Dominate Europe?

04:10

Introduction

2min

The Second World War - The History of the Balkans

3min

First World War - A Tragic, Tearjerking Story

6min

What Would Have Happened if We Had Stayed Out and Let the Germans Win?

2min

Europe Goes to War 19 14

4min

The Germans Invading Belgium

3min

The Great War - The Kaiser and His Generals and Ministers

2min

The Germans Are Beastly

4min

The Germans, the Germans and the British

2min

10.

The First World War - The Crisis in August 1914

2min

11.

The War That Ends Peace, the Road to 19 14

3min

12.

The First World War - A History of the German Empire

5min

13.

Did the British Want to Let Germany Dominate Europe?

4min

14.

Intelligence Squared - A Micro Adjustment With Big Benefits

3min

15.

Ia Tem Bunches, I'm Together.

2min

16.

Is the Germans Gonna Be Able to Keep an Empire if We Stayedout?

2min

17.

The Kaiser's Role in the War on Belgium

2min

18.

The One Set of People Who Didn't Need to Get Involved in the War

2min

19.

The Importance of Fighting to Defend the Empire

2min

20.

Dominic Sanbro - Isn't He in Danger of Creating a Composite Bogyman Germany?

2min

21.

The First World War - The U K Way of Life

2min

22.

What a Lovely War Is

2min

23.

The Germans' Social Legislation - The German's Enlightened Social Law

4min

24.

The Germans Are Worried About the Invasion of Belgium

3min

25.

No, There Were No War Mongers in Britain at the Time

2min

26.

Is the First World War Really Worth Respect and Honour?

2min

27.

Isn't the Key Point at the War to End Al Was?

2min

28.

Anti Semitism in Germany

3min

29.

The Empire Comes to Defend Britain

2min

30.

What a Pleasure It Is to Talk About These Issues

3min

31.

Were the Germans in the First World War Worthit?

2min

32.

What Is a British Interest That Would Have Been Worth Fighting For?

3min

33.

What Did Happen in 1914?

2min

34.

Polan and the Hapsburgs

2min

35.

The Great War, the Greatest War, Is Over.

2min

36.

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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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The Sunday Debate: Britain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War

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The First World War - The Crisis in August 1914

The War That Ends Peace, the Road to 19 14

Did the British Want to Let Germany Dominate Europe?

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