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Thread #133984   Message #3598172
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
04-Feb-14 - 08:12 AM
Thread Name: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
Subject: RE: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
"The Great War Of Words" BBC R4 this morning.

A number of historians spoke or were quoted.
None were from my existing list, but every statement supported my stated views.

Some examples:
Heather Jones
"It was a war of consent. People carried on fighting it because they believed in it, not because they were told to believe in it."
Jane Winter
I would utterly reject the idea that the British population are manipulated through propaganda into pursuing the First world war,"
Pierre Purseigle)
Increasingly this war is seen no only as a war to be fought and to be won in order to respond to its tragic challenge, but also as an existential conflict that effectively this is a conflict between right and evil, and that the threat is against our way of life, our home, our families and our friends."