The Pity of War

Taal: nld
Categorie: nieuws, documentaire

Harvard historian Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a tragic mistake. The First World War was one of the great turning points of modern history. We know where the war started: in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, when a Bosnian Serb named Gavrilo Princip murdered the heir to the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy. But how and why did this crisis in the Balkans escalate into a bloody global conflagration? Did Britain really have...