Events for Tuesday 4th August 2020
On This Day in History
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WWI: United Kingdom declare war on Germany
4th August 1914The United Kingdom declared war on Germany on 4th August 1914, following the invasion of neutral Belgium by Germany.
Further Reading
Kitchener's Army(Hardback - 358 pages)
by Peter Simkins
Numbering over five million men, Britain's army in the First World War was the biggest in the country's history. Remarkably, nearly half those men who served in it were volunteers. 2,466,719 men enlisted between August 1914 and December 1915, many in response to the appeals of the Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener.… Read more...
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WWI: Britain declared war on Germany
4th August 1914The United Kingdom declared war on Germany on the 4th August 1914, following an "unsatisfactory reply" to the British ultimatum that Belgium must be kept neutral.
Further Reading
Facing Armageddon(Hardback - 936 pages)
by Peter Liddle
Facing Armageddon is a major collection of scholarly work on the 1914-18 war that explores, on a worldwide basis, the real nature of the participants’ experience. The book is a classic in the field. Sixty-four scholars from all over the globe, including the USA, Russia, Germany, Italy, France, Holland and… Read more...
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