General Discussions

I recently came across AJP Taylor’s famous talk in this series about how WW1was unstoppable, due to German railway timetables. That could be debated endlessly, but it does demonstrate that events can take on a momentum of their own, which the parties involved cannot control.

Anyway, I had forgotten (yes, I am old enough to remember these talks and the first manned flight around the Moon) that Taylor began his series with the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Perhaps, his talk might seem rather quaint with his ideas about Napoleon being forced into war and a rather Anglocentric approach, but here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzvse8bZ-Fc