OK, one more time, Keith, for the delectation and entertainment of anyone left here still reading.

What Keith said in the thread "I'm not an historian, but..." on 16.12.2014 at 12.59:

"The Guardian last week described the work of Clark and Taylor as 'fraudulent'."

What Geoffrey Wheatcroft actually wrote in his Guardian article "The Myth of the Good War" on 9.12.2014, and what Keith was referring to:

"That series had been preceded in 1963 by AJP Taylor's rather vulgar book, The First World War: An Illustrated History, and Oh, What a Lovely War!, Joan Littlewood's musical pasquinade. The latter, which used the songs the Tommies had sung in the trenches, drew on Alan Clark's 1961 book The Donkeys – a largely fraudulent book, whose title derives from an invented quotation about 'lions led by donkeys', that nevertheless made a mark."

Note, good people, Keith's use of quote marks there. A perfect example of how Keith "modifies" his quoting in order to fit his agenda. In the very next post I challenged Keith's version. For weeks afterwards, as you can see if you bother to read the thread, he refused to accept that he had misrepresented Wheatcroft in his post. Unbelievable, eh? Busted, disgusting, can't be trusted.