This assassination and the international reactions to it led to the outbreak of World War One. However, there are a number of wider causes and factors that contributed to the war. Some date back ...

BBC News Productions. Christopher Clark, Professor of History at Cambridge University, presents a five-part series on the outbreak of World War One. He explains the reasons for the onset of ...

Poisoned arrows are not being used in the European war, but apparently only for the reason ... half the world has been concentrated in an effort to make war more terrible on the one hand, and ...

(p. 1). Mombauer’s first chapter opens with the line “The debate about the causes of the First World War began even before the first shots had been fired,” (p. 14) and proceeds to sift through all of ...

Children's programming and BBC Learning initiatives marking the centenary of World War One. CBBC Multi-award-winning ... try to explain the not-so-simple reasons for Britain joining the war.