Intelligence Squared
Intelligence Squared
Intelligence Squared
Britain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War
1 hour 33 minutes Posted Apr 27, 2025 at 10:04 am.
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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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