From: Teribus Date: 17 Nov 14 - 10:11 AM

Only running from the simple question put to the Author Alan Clark i.e.
Question "Where did it come from?
Answer from Alan Clark "Well I invented it"

Not so, Teribus! The invention is yours. You have paraphrased - wrongly -this recollection of a conversation in your own words.

From: Teribus Date: 18 Nov 14 - 10:40 AM

henryp - he called the book "The Donkey's" because in the Foreword to the book Clark inserted a reference to an imaginary conversation he dreamed up and attributed to two German Officer's. That is all I have ever contended.

Again, not so, Teribus! Clark called his book The Donkeys after the phrase 'lions led by donkeys'. The preface offers an explanation.

You have even provided the following statement; Prior to publication in a letter to Hugh Trevor Roper, [Clark] asked "English soldiers, lions led by donkeys etc - can you remember who said that?

This demonstrates that the phrase was already familiar to both Alan Clark and Hugh Trevor Roper. In that case, Clark clearly did not invent it!

Teribus - you have tripped yourself up over and over again. In what cause, I cannot say.