The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #156088 Message #3679673
Posted By: Jim Carroll
24-Nov-14 - 03:54 PM
Thread Name: WWI, was No-Man's Land
Subject: RE: WWI, was No-Man's Land
"On the issues I have have raised, the Historians all agree" Utter nonsense - you have carefully selected from four historians - you have never given the slightest impression of having read more, on the contrary, you refused to even consider the list of those actively studying the war as being too many. Three of those you have cited have stated that the commonly held view must be challenged - if there is a consensus, what is there to challenge? Your former champion, the tabloid journalist Max Hastings, has declared his contempt for the conduct of the the military - so there's a historian (of sorts) who doesn't fit your consensus. Your latest champion bases her thesis on the complex and conflicting reasons why men enlisted - no consensus, even within her own work. One can only wonder why you are prepared to spend so much time contradicting and denigrating those who actually fought the war in favour of the modern trend of making it antiseptic - well no, that's not entirely true, one can perfectly well understand it in the light of your political views. Jim Carroll