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Thread #133984   Message #3588141
Posted By: Jim Carroll
01-Jan-14 - 12:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
Subject: RE: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
"Have you found one living historian who supports your views yet?
By the way - all living historians support - the traditional view (not mine - the one that is fully accepted by both historians and educationists) - I would have thought that would have been blindingly obvious, except of course - you don't read - not even your own cut-'n-pastes.
At least one of your revisionist historians (correct use of the term - one who revises the accepted facts in the light of new considerations) has said that 'the current view of World War One must be altered' - this has been echoed by your Daily Mail journalist Therefore, until the views of the tiny minority you have hastily sought out are fully accepted, the traditional se of facts remain unchanged.
Unless you are able to supply any evidence whatever that such a change is taking place, the situation remains unaltered
There has been little response to your 'historian' and journalist's claims so far - don't you think we would have had some evidence of this radical change of view if there had been one.
So far these pronouncements have been greeted with silence - apart from the history journals writer pointing out that Max Clifford's - (whoops - I meant Hastings of course - these tabloid writers are beginning to confuse me) - book is weak on the causes of World War One (do you intend to respond to this statement)
Don't suppose for one minute that you'll respond to this with anything more than stupid denials - but that's something else that remains unaltered.

"Stuart Hallifax"
Might have had better luck if you'd spelled it properly in the first place.
From a book review of 2007 - nothing to do with the history of WW1 - just the effect it had on life in Britain his thesis was on "the experiences and attitudes of civilians in Essex during the First World War, 1914-1918"
If he was successful in his studies he is now a seasoned historian of 9 years standing in the effects of domestic life in Britain.
"Stuart Hallifax is a DPhil student at The Queen's College, Oxford studying the effect of the First World War on life in Britain."
These is little information on his skills as a historian - apart from self-promoting blogs.
Jim Carroll