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Thread #156062 Message #3679502
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
24-Nov-14 - 05:42 AM
Thread Name: Oh! What a Lovely War! - BBC Radio 2
Subject: RE: Oh! What a Lovely War! - BBC Radio 2

Oxford historian Margaret MacMillan:
(Another establishment lackey?)

"The wartime generals were not all cowards and incompetents as Alan Clark argued in his infamous 'The Donkeys' (1961). ... And was the war just a dreadful mistake or was it about something? ... It is condescending and wrong to think they were hoodwinked. British soldiers felt they were fighting for their country and its values."