It wasn't though, as you find when you read the whole of that chapter

It was thought to be true at the time, and turned out to be true in fact. It does not justify your false claim of the people being lied to about the Germans.
They already knew about the atrocities anyway from the hundreds of thousands of Belgian refugees.
The revisionist historians tried to understate the German atrocities, but we now know that 6000 civilians including children were deliberately massacred.
Messinger is out of date on that. It was published 24 years ago.

But we arent't talking about history as an abstract concept.

We are talking about the history of WW1.
Of course the historians know more about it than you do!
Your pomposity is truly breathtaking!

Jim,
Far from being "well led", it was.....

The historians and military historians agree it was, so why should anyone care what your view is Jim?

You are very ill informed about this Jim.
It is blatantly obvious that you have read no history written for at least twenty years.
Almost everything you have said about it is wrong.

If you want a response on something, try to formulate a question and I will answer it.