37 Days. The political build up to WW1.

Discussion in 'Books, Films, TV, Radio' started by bamboo43, Mar 2, 2014.

  1. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

  2. Wills

    Wills Very Senior Member

  3. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

  4. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

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  5. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Arse! I knew that would happen.
    Sorry, Steve. Merged threads.

    S'good though.
     
  6. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Why is it on now & not in June?
     
  7. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    If your world is so literal that everything must be shown on the exact anniversary of the subject covered, do you not get terribly confused with pre-Gregorian events?
     
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  8. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    No cos I'm not making a huge fuss over the 100th anniversary.
    The media is so it'd be nice if they were somehow related to what happened when.
     
  9. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    good indeed
     
  10. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    I've Sky + this and not watched it yet but it does look good. Anyone watch the Max Hastings programme a few weeks back, that was good and the follow up against going to war was pretty dull and I found it a bit annoying how he kept slipping in facts about Scotland, like how they had more casualties than England etc.
     
  11. geoff501

    geoff501 Achtung Feind hört mit

    That would be Niall Ferguson presumably? I think he quotes 26% death rate for the Scots, He got his calculations wrong.

    Long explanation here:

    http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=180471&p=1752664
     
  12. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    That's sounds right Geoff.....I think even the historians wished they hadn't bothered taking part in the debate. After he had said his piece on WW1 he didn't seem to be bothered by what anyone else had to say.
     
  13. SteveDee

    SteveDee Well-Known Member

    I must have bought this DVD earlier this year, but only just got around to watching it. I thought it was excellent.

    37Days.JPG

    If it is factually correct then WW1 happened because of a handful of powerful madmen, supported by a bucket load of stupid people.

    Just as in WW2, it looks like a group of appeasers prevented decisive action being taken early, which may have averted war...but then hindsight does have magical properties.
     

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