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How Wars Begin

Season 1 · Episode 4

The First World War

0.030mAugust 1, 1977

AJP Taylor presents his interpretation of the causes of the First World War, rejecting Fifties' theories attributing the outbreak of hostilities to German design.

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Episodes

Episode 1The Modern War: From French Revolution to French Empire
Episode 2Two Contrasting Wars
Episode 3Bismarck's Wars
Episode 4The First World War
Episode 5The Second World War
Episode 6The Cold War