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Thread #156088   Message #3685785
Posted By: Teribus
15-Dec-14 - 03:11 AM
Thread Name: WWI, was No-Man's Land
Subject: RE: WWI, was No-Man's Land
" GUEST - 13 Dec 14 - 09:01 AM

Interesting analysis of Dan Snow's myth busting here. Yes, I know it is probably not by a historian and no I do not know anything about the author but his arguments are clear and reasonable.


Lindsey German - a she - not a historian - former central committee member of the Socialist Workers Party and a current activist for the Stop The War Coalition.

The following by one of the Muskets I find hilarious:

"Of course, if the men were well led, this wouldnt be necessary."

Referring here to those executed - well even if everyone who was sentenced had been shot then they would have represented a percentage of only 0.056% of those serving in the British Army - hardly an epidemic is it? So does the fact that 99.944% of that 5.3 million didn't run mean that they were well led? The French Armies mutinied, the German Army mutinied, the German Navy mutinied, the Russian Army mutinied the British Army DIDN'T So does that mean that they were well led?

"The men were under the command of officers charged with their protection, safety and welfare."

In time of WAR????? Care to tell us how they could do that? - Muppet.