"I have never argued about events prior to the invasion of Belgium Jim, "
Yes you have Keith - you backed away from all your arguments at a later dates and retreated to your present "three" when the rest of them became unsubstainable - you have done this with your 'Famine' arguments and with your 'implants' (with which you added, "I only believe it because some#body else said it".
It's became a technique of argument with you.
"I will remind you that Macmillan holds Germany and Austria-Hungary "responsible" for the war."
And I will remind you that McMillan, in all her arguments makes a point of stating that the subject of who started the war was an extremely complex one - one of the articles is headed "Please don't ask me who started the War".
She condemns the simplistic way jingoists like you approach the subject - half truths and inaccuracies.
"I agree with her"
Must have made her New Year for her - you can't stop being pompous, can you - just as Terribulus can't stop being belligerant.
I await with some interest to see how he is going to revise how the war was fought.
"who has actually written a book about it?"
Nobody - there have been no new revelations on WW1.
What has happened was that a handful of writers, from historians to tabloid journalists, have decided to take the opportunity of the Centenary of the war to rehabilitate its reputation and make it more acceptable, not with new historical facts, but with their own opinions - a PR exercise.
It was based on the deeply insulting claim that we all took our understanding of the war from 'Blackadder Goes Forth' and 'Oh What a Lovely War'
There is now access to soldiers' diaries, but these seem to confirm what we already know - and what is being argued about here is a justification (and distortion) of what we already know.
Jim Carroll