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Lecture

William Tyler
Towards and Into War: 1914

Monday 12.12.2022

Summary

William Tyler covers the nearly 45 years of history that lead the world into the chaos of World War I.

William Tyler

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William Tyler has spent his entire professional life in adult education, beginning at Kingsgate College in 1969. He has lectured widely for many public bodies, including the University of Cambridge and the WEA, in addition to speaking to many clubs and societies. In 2009, William was awarded the MBE for services to adult education, and he has previously been a scholar in residence at the London Jewish Cultural Centre.

Because they never intended to. They wanted to take the sting out of France, that France would not be a threat to a unified Germany. They succeeded in that. They have never … Bismarck is not Hitler. Bismarck had no intention of European conquest. He just wanted Denmark, Austria and France to remain in their boxes. And to remain in their boxes, he would defeat them. And impose whatever he wanted to impose. He took Alsace-Lorraine. But he was not intending to occupy France. Quite different, who from, either the Kaiser, or Hitler, who had a vision of a German dominated European continent, including Britain. That’s very different from Bismarck.