Britain before the First World War I THE GREAT WAR Special

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Britain was the center of a vast colonial empire and a rapidly changing world in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But what happened in the country in the years before the World War?

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" WHAT ARE YOUR SOURCES ?
Videos: British Pathé
Images: mainly Picture Alliance
Background map: http://d-maps.com/carte.php?num_car6030&langen
Literature (excerpt):
Gilbert, Martin. WWI. A Complete History, Holt Paperbacks, 2004.
Hart, Peter. The Great War. A Combat History of the First World War, Oxford University Press, 2013.
Hart, Peter. The Great War. 1914-1918, Profile Books, 2013.
Pierre, Norman. First World War. A brief history, Penguin, 2008.
Keegan, John. World War I, Vintage, 2000.
Hastings, Max. Catastrophe of 1914. Europe goes to war, Knopf, 2013.
Hirschfeld, Gerhard. Enzyklopädie Erster Weltkrieg, Schöningh Paderborn, 2004
Michalka, Wolfgang. The Erste Weltkrieg. Wirkung, Wahrnehmung, Analysis, Seehamer Verlag GmbH, 2000
Leonhard, Jörn. Die Büchse der Pandora: Geschichte des Ersten Weltkrieges, CH Beck, 2014

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THE GREAT WAR covers the events of exactly 100 years ago: the history of the First World War in real time. Presenting: British Pathé's unique archival material. Indy Neidell takes you on a trip down memory lane to show you what really happened and how it could all escalate into more than four years of terrible war. Subscribe to our channel and don't miss our new episodes every Thursday.

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