When Britain entered the war in August 1914 the government proclaimed that it needed to honour a long standing commitment to protect Belgium. In the short term, this was indeed one of the spurs ...
In both World Wars ... the Triple Entente effectively surrounded the Triple Alliance and could strike from either direction. The idea was that the threat of a two-front war would prevent Germany ...
The Road to War uses elaborate and fascinating ... conflict involving the Central Powers and the Triple Entente escalated to become World War I a war with more than 17 million dead and More ...