General Article Like in 1914 or 1939, we may be sleepwalking towards a global war that nothing can stop

Topic Selected: War and Conflict Book Volume: 401

Catastrophe can come out of the blue. Shortly before Britain was dragged into the devastating French revolutionary wars, the then prime minister William Pitt reassured the House of Commons that ‘there never was a time in the history of this country when ... we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace.’ In 1938, Neville Chamberlain won global plaudits for securing ‘peace for our time’. In 1914, just before the German army marched in, the French public was wholly absorbed by the tria...

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