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Thread #133984   Message #3596441
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
29-Jan-14 - 03:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
Subject: RE: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
Jim, I only put forward 3 views.
Britain had no choice but to resist the German onslaught, the British people overwhelmingly understood and accepted that, and that the British army was not badly led.

The programme addressed the first two, and was in agreement.
No surprise, because I put up Paxman's expressed views before the programme aired.

"You called me a liar for inventing the "it'll all over by Christmas" slogan"
Of course you did not invent it!
I showed that one of your own sources said it had no impact, and it certainly did not come from government.

I did not call Sassoon et al liars.
I said that their views were not typical or in anyway representative of the majority.
(Paxman said the same in interviews.)

And Jim, I have been reading books about this war all my life.
You clearly have read nothing published less than 30 years ago.