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Thread #133984   Message #3600071
Posted By: Jim Carroll
10-Feb-14 - 10:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
Subject: RE: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
"Every country at war censors the press, but the British government could not and did not give them propaganda to publish."
The army did, which amounts to the same thing - read the article you were linked to.
You claimed no censorship took place; didn't think for one moment you would withdraw that mistake - that would be "snivelling, wouldn't it?
"The press was not government controlled."
Of course it was - you just said so - have you stopped reaading your own postings as well as everybody elses?
"Every country at war censors the press, but the British government could not and did not give them propaganda to publish."
"The shell scandal was exposed by The Daily Mail."
The shell scandal is established history and was the cause of Kitchener tendering his resignation - what's your point - that history is wrong again, I suppose?
"I call you a liar for claiming to have produced dissenting historians."
All historians are "dissenting" (even the ones you have produced).
Accepted history remains as it has been for at least half a century I have produced lists of historians who accept the present version of history and will continue to do so until that view is proved wrong.
" have never called Sassoon or Graves or Owen liars, just unrepresentative."
Didn't mention Graves here - he's not a historian - you should know that if you'd made the "life long study" you've claimed to.
You described Sassoon and the War Poets as Romantics who distorted their experiences of the war - tantamount to calling them liars, especially to children.   
You don't mention Tommy Kenny ot Patrick McGill so I presume they are still "liars".
"old discredited myths, "
Neither discredited or Myths; established history until proved otherwise - it'll take more than a few cut-'n-pastes to do that!
Sorry - you really will have to read a book one day.
Your moronic repetition of a request for something you were given as early as the previous thread only underlines the fact that you have lost it.
You are a desperate little arse-hole, aren't you?
Jim Carroll