wasn't, particularly the way the war came to an end and the way the peace settlement was made, alfred milner as were many in the european elite at the time this peace settlement and onerous terms it imposed on germany, as he called it the peace to end all peace and indeed that's what it turned out to be. >> yeah, i was wondering if all this planning for the war, the propaganda effort and all that, how, if you can make an estimate how many people actually, in the room, how many people actually made the decision to go to war for everyone else? how many deciders were? >> that's a complicated question because of course there were different deciders in different countries. and historians have spent a lot of time studying those six weeks between the assassinations at sarajevo and the outbreak of the war. i think there were some key people. i think if kaiser wilhelm ii and emperor of auts tria hungary were not so bellicose the war might have been averted. but part of the problem with the way things were the set up in europe at that time there were two things that made this downward slide into immen

alfred milner, a bad guy in my book, nonetheless, was smart enough to see the piece settlement and theerms, were as he called it the piece to end all piece. indeed, that's what it turned out to be. >> yeah, i was wondering if all of the planning for the war, the propaganda director and all of that. if you were asked about it, how many people actually -- quite a bit of room. how many people made the decision to go to war. how many deciders were there? >> boy, that's a complicated question. because there are different deciders in different countries. and historians have spent lot of time studying those six weeks again the assassinations of sierra navo and the assassinations of war. i think there were key chemo. if they were not quite so bellicose, the war might have been averted. part of the problem was the way things were set up in europe. there were two things that made the downward slide into immense conflict inevitable. once it began, once was the system of rival alliances where there are countries committed to come to each other's aid if one country was drawn into the conflict. fran