Try Brian Bond for a start:


Liddell Hart: a study of his military thought. London: Cassell, 1977; New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1977;[3] Aldershot: Gregg Revivals in association with Department of War Studies, King's College London, 1991.


Staff officer: the diaries of Walter Guinness (first Lord Moyne), 1914–1918, edited by Brian Bond and Simon Robbins. London: Leo Cooper, 1987.

The First World War and British military history, edited by Brian Bond. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.


The pursuit of victory: from Napoleon to Saddam Hussein, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, 1998.


Look to your front: studies in the First World War by the British Commission for Military History; Brian Bond et al. Staplehurst: Spellmount, 1999.

Haig: a reappraisal 70 years on, edited by Brian Bond and Nigel Cave. London: Leo Cooper, 1999.

Haig: a reappraisal 80 years on, edited by Brian Bond and Nigel Cave. Barnsley, Pen and Sword Military, 2009.

The unquiet Western Front: Britain's role in literature and history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

The British General Staff: reform and innovation c.1890-1939, edited by David French and Brian Holden Reid in honour of: Brian Bond. London: Frank Cass, 2002.

The war memoirs of Earl Stanhope, General Staff Officer in France, 1914–1918 by Lieutenant Colonel Earl Stanhope, edited by Brian Bond. Brighton: Tom Donovan Editions, 2006.

Of the above the most informative is "The Unquiet Western Front" Peer reviews as follows:

1: The Spectator: -Professor Brian Bond makes a thought-provoking bid to claw the First World War back to history, away from popular myth … Brian Bond's arresting, sensible book, concentrating in 100-odd lucid pages the historical evidence against the myth, is a gift to teachers and a welcome antidote to the distorted popular image of the first world war. It may be long before historians win their battle, but The Unquiet Western Front shows where the lines should be drawn.'

2: History Today: -"Anyone who wants to reflect about the Great War and its role in shaping modern British thinking about war must read [this].'

3: Royal United Services Institute Journal: -"'… an important critique of the anti-war culture that is so influential in framing popular suppositions today.'

4: The Salisbury Review: -"a well documented and carefully considered attack on the treatment of the First World War by the literary world and the populist media …'

5: BBC History Magazine: -"'The Unquiet Western Front is a concisely compelling defence of the British war effort … [it] is required reading for anyone who wishes to understand scholarship on the Great War as we approach the ninetieth anniversary of the war's outbreak.'

6: The Academic: -"Britain's outstanding military achievement in the First World War has been eclipsed by literary myths. Why has the Army's role on the Western Front been so seriously misrepresented? This 2002 book shows how myths have become deeply rooted, particularly in the inter-war period, in the 1960s, and in the 1990s. The outstanding 'anti-war' influences have been 'war poets', subalterns' trench memoirs, the book and film of All Quiet on the Western Front, and the play Journey's End. For a new generation in the 1960s the play and film of Oh What a Lovely War had a dramatic effect, while more recently Blackadder has been dominant. Until more recently, historians had either reinforced the myths, or had failed to counter them. This book follows the intense controversy from 1918 to the present, and concludes that historians are at last permitting the First World War to be placed in proper perspective.

After that there is Dan Snow and Jeremy Paxman who in his series of programmes completely disagrees with everything you have said

So Bond; Snow; Paxman then I would refer you to the names detailed in my post of 20 Nov 14 - 01:58 AM

Now then Christmas tell us all again the date on which Lord Kitchener resigned.