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Thread #133984   Message #3589227
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
05-Jan-14 - 12:06 PM
Thread Name: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
Subject: RE: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
I agree with your first sentence Jim.
Now that it has been fully established that there is a majority consensus on the causes and conduct of World War One

Yes, among historians at least, with NO dissenters yet identified in terms of my 3 points.

The rest of your post is just you imagining you are a historian and passing down to the world the fruits of your knowledge, wisdom and research.(chuckle)

Jim, you are not even familiar with the work of ONE living historian.
You know nothing about WW1.

Please respond to this.
"The British left responded to such fascism by largely supporting the war effort. Appeals by trade union leaders to oppose German aggression, particularly against Belgium, led more than 250,000 of their members to enlist by Christmas 1914, with 25% of miners volunteering before conscription. Typical was John Ward, one of my predecessors as MP for Stoke-on-Trent and the leader of the Navvies' Union. To "fight Prussianism", he raised three pioneer battalions from his members and, commissioned as a colonel by Lord Kitchener, led them to battle in France, Italy and Russia."

Inspired by socialism, not jingoism Jim.