"he'd made the false claim in two threads" - Steve Shaw Good heavens Shaw caught out in yet another lie. : RE: WWI, was No-Man's Land From: Keith A of Hertford - PM Date: 10 Dec 14 - 03:55 PM Yesterday's Guardian. "That series had been preceded in 1963 by AJP Taylor's rather vulgar book, The First World War: An Illustrated History, and Oh, What a Lovely War!, Joan Littlewood's musical pasquinade. The latter, which used the songs the Tommies had sung in the trenches, drew on Alan Clark's 1961 book The Donkeys – a largely fraudulent book, whose title derives from an invented quotation about "lions led by donkeys", that nevertheless made a mark. Now the perception of the Great War that had formed in the late 1920s was strengthened all over again. Working-class lads had been sent like sheep to the slaughter by brutal and stupid generals, callously indifferent to the suffering they inflicted, a theme played much later and with repellent facetiousness by Blackadder. The upper classes as a whole stood condemned for wanton bloodshed." The above was the first direct quotation from Geoffrey Wheatcroft's article in the Guardian by Keith A of Hertford and it is an accurate quote in all respects. PRIOR TO Keith A quoting that passage from Wheatcroft's article, there had been a link to the complete article posted by a GUEST. AFTER Keith A's post there was no other mention of this article or reference to it by anyone else on the thread that was subsequently closed on or round the 18th December, 2014. So Shaw in which two threads did Keith a according to you make these false claims? (My bet folks is that Shaw will ignore this question and go desperately quiet on the subject - We may however be regaled at length on the subject of what next will be projected from between the cheeks his arse)
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