was the great war necessary?

The first difficulty is that Germany's aim, after the war began, to control Belgian coast possibly French Channel ports as well was one that, by Ferguson's own admission, no British government could have tolerated.. Ferguson states, however, that had Britain not intervened,..

world war i in numbers

There were eight million soldiers from France, 13 million from Germany, nine million from Austria-Hungary and six million from Italy. . Britain sent nine million men, including troops from around the British Empire, chiefly India. ..

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