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Thread #156062   Message #3678665
Posted By: Jim Carroll
20-Nov-14 - 09:56 AM
Thread Name: Oh! What a Lovely War! - BBC Radio 2
Subject: RE: Oh! What a Lovely War! - BBC Radio 2
"He was only called butcher after his death."
It would have been treasonable to refer to him as such during the war and it would have been a no-no to call him what he was after the war.
Keeping diaries was forbidden, so any soldier who had any sense would have been very careful what he put in them while he was serving on the front
"You have not found a single Living historian who supports your views"
By "living" you mean those who came along a half a century or so later with their various agendas
You have dismissed Liddell Hart, who was a serving soldier - numerous others you have dismissed as "revisionist" and the soldiers I have cited still stand as "liars" in your book.
In retur, you have given us Max Hastings, a "historian" whose views contradict your claims and Gary Sheffied, a British army employee
Stop hiding behind historians you haven't read
Jim Carroll