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Thread #158817   Message #3762157
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
01-Jan-16 - 05:07 AM
Thread Name: History and mythology of WW1
Subject: RE: History and mythology of WW1
"I have never argued about events prior to the invasion of Belgium Jim, "
Yes you have Keith


No I have not.
You can not challenge what I do say, so you pretend I have said something else!

I await with some interest to see how he is going to revise how the war was fought.

No revision needed.
Here is what Macmillan says about it.

The wartime generals were not all cowards and incompetents as Alan Clark argued in his infamous The Donkeys (1961). A new generation of British historians, among others, has done much to explode such lazy generalisation and show that commanders developed both strategies and tactics that, in the end, worked.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/7b6f0490-6347-11e3-a87d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2oJ9WwKyd