The recent sanitising is recently contrived. The older stuff you refer to also gives the other views and tries to balance. Others have quoted a few above. Read them. I debate, not enter into a Google contest.

All your precious historians give a far more balanced view than your cherry picking. My concern with the political angle is that Gove and Co were also promoting out of context snippets. Their favourite hack, Max Hastings completely prostituting historical narration.

There again, he does support the executions of soldiers... I doubt he would question or analyse the measures put in place to coerce a generation to near fucking genocide.

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