Wow.

Two comments from Keith A Hole of Hertford managed to stay in my head whilst getting up to date on this thread.

He says he gets his opinion from historians. Strange, most people get their own opinion based on others.

He reckons one bloke must be right because he taught at Sandhurst. That liberal hotbed of peaceniks eh? Senior soldiers must get a proper objective education if they are to pass their objective education onto smiling squaddies. I used to be in a civic club and one of our members was a teacher from the nearby Welbeck College. He resigned and went elsewhere because of his concern that the military sixth form were being conditioned into a version of how society ticks rather than reality.

I too have a view you see. I get mine from analysis of all I encounter. Not a careful selection of revisionist takes on the situation. Keith appears to be unable to distinguish between the account and the analysis of that account. His pet historians may be able to describe an event but the reader doesn't have to accept their conclusion.

Unless you have your opinion formed for you.

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