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Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
14-Dec-14 - 01:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: I am not an historian but........
Subject: RE: BS: I am not an historian but........
But Canberra-based military historian Peter Stanley of the University of NSW was scathing at the idea of the name change.
Professor Stanley conceded that Haig's reputation has been patchy over the decades, but to change the name of the park would be ''grotesque revisionism''.
''The park was named after Douglas Haig because at the time he was regarded – justifiably – as the general who had led the British empire's armies to victory on the Western Front,'' Professor Stanley said.
''Haig's reputation has been both attacked and defended. The thrust of current military historical thinking is that he did as good a job as could have been done.