That kind of stuff about casualty figures in the Great War is very reminsicent of the type of thing Holocaust deniers go in for.

This is the second time I read this extremely unfair guilt-by-comparison argument from you, McGrath, though you thinly disguise it by a qualifier like 'reminiscent'.

You should be able to see a huge difference between a scholarly debate among historians about casualty numbers (in the holocaust debate, the numbers of Jews killed I have seen in serious debates vary between 4.5 and 6 million) and a total denial of casualties. The equivalent would be that someone tries to tell that no more people died in the battle of Verdun than can be expected among young people exercising a couple of months in fresh air.

If you don't like discussions about casualty numbers that's fine but please keep your arguments in proportion.

Wolfgang