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Thread #133984   Message #3590355
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
09-Jan-14 - 09:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
Subject: RE: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
In the essays and extracts we have available, we do not see how research has led to and supports a conclusion.
Other historians would not accept anything from a peer (rival) that could not be substantiated.

There really is a remarkable consensus that the views of Clark and Liddel Hart were wrong but are still pervasive.

I got into this by saying I did not like songs that portrayed the British soldier of WW1 as someone who did not know or understand what he was doing or why, and was just a dupe of the establishment.

I knew from my reading that historians had shown that not to be the case.
I also knew that historians did not regard the war as in any way futile, and that the army was generally well led.

For saying that, you have seen the kind of abuse I receive.
That is all they can do because none of them have any actual knowledge.