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Thread #156239   Message #3687215
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
19-Dec-14 - 04:33 PM
Thread Name: BS: I am not an historian but........
Subject: RE: BS: I am not an historian but........
Jim, I claimed that Britain had no choice but to resist the German invasions.
She said, "Britain certainly thought it had legitimate reasons for going in, and I think it did," she says."

I said that the people supported that.
She said"It is condescending and wrong to think they were hoodwinked. British soldiers felt they were fighting for their country and its values; "

I said that the army was well led.
She said, "A new generation of British historians, among others, has done much to explode such lazy generalisation (incompetence) and show that commanders developed both strategies and tactics that, in the end, worked."

Those were and are my only claims.
She supports all three and says that "new generation of British historians, among others" have "exploded" those old myths.

She also said that "some powers and their leaders are more culpable than others. Austria-Hungary's mad determination to destroy Serbia in 1914, Germany's decision to back it to the hilt, Russia's impatience to mobilise, these all seem to me to bear the greatest responsibility for the outbreak of the war."