Guest Dave, once the war started Great Britain found itself in an alliance with France, Belgium and with Russia.

As Keith A has introduced the fact that peace would have had to have been bought on the premise that the Germans retained all the territory they had captured - while NO British territory had been taken you sitting in your armchair now in 2015 might think that that might have been a good deal it was always going to be totally unacceptable to the French and the Belgians - Our Allies.

The entire country was at war it was not just the ruling classes and the attitude at the time was perfectly correct - we are involved in a war against those who would do us harm - we have to win this war, we will win this war and do anything we have to do to accomplish that goal.

The German Kaiser was the person who pushed for this war, he was the only person who could have prevented it from happening and he didn't. It was the German Kaiser who would have had to have agreed any overture of peace and the entire world and his dog must have known that the terms submitted would have been instantly rejected by the countries whose territorial integrity had been violated and whose civil populations had suffered.

Because of the losses suffered by the German Armies on the western front at Verdun and on the Somme in 1916 - the German High Command knew that they could not defeat either the British or the French - hence the peace proposal.


It was the rulers of the Central Powers who set out THEIR terms so please tell me how on earth we must share the blame for something that we had no part in.