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Thread #133984 Message #3592578
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
16-Jan-14 - 07:36 AM
Thread Name: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
Subject: RE: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
I hesitate to post and refresh this thread again, but in light of Keith's continuing insistance that all historians share his version of history it seems appropriate to point out at least one exception.
Christpher Clark is professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge, and author of "The Sleepwalkers: how Europe went to war". In a two page spread in today's Guardian he indicates that he disagrees with the suggestion that German aggression started the Great War, preferring to see the cause as "the consequence of interactions between the great powers, each willing to resort to violence in support of its interests."