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Thread #133984   Message #3596209
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
28-Jan-14 - 09:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
Subject: RE: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
You have yet to comment on the fiasco of sending an unprepared and inadequately sized army in to be wiped out at Mons

That was all the army we had when the German onslaught began.
We were unprepared for the war, and never wanted it.
They were well equipped and well trained, and eventually stopped the German advance very effectively as Terribus said.


Dave, I am sure you will agree that the message of last night's programme was that Britain had no choice but to resist the German onslaught, and the British people overwhelmingly understood and accepted that.

That is what Gary Sheffield and other historians have said, and it is what I have said.