EPISODE 5

By the time America joined the War in April 1917, Britain was on the verge of bankruptcy. President Wilson had finally accepted that the US would have to fight if it wanted to help shape the peace, but there was concern in Britain that he did not appreciate how critical the Allied position had become. Professor Sir Hew Strachan considers how the peacemaker turned belligerent and the War Missions despatched by Britain to the US to press its case.

PRESENTERSir Hew Strachan is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Life Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford (2002-2015) and Director of the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War (2003-2012). He is a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum, and a Commonwealth War Graves Commissioner.

CREDITSMusic - James Holmes on piano | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Recorded at Essential Music | A ChromeRadio Production 2017 | With thanks to the Rothermere Foundation

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