Quite a brave article from the BBC after the recent hoopla from Michael Gove’s Daily Mail piece. Efforts by historians like John Terraine [thank you for the correction commenters – brain fart there I fear!] and Gary Sheffield have made little inroads into our Blackadder-tinted view of the Great War, so this is quite an encouraging bit of popular-level scepticism. It will be interesting to see which group of revisionists ‘wins’ the public perception war as the centenary nears.
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January 24, 2014 at 10:07 am |
Do you mean John Terraine?
February 4, 2014 at 9:20 pm |
Gah, yes, I did. Very careless of me. Thanks for the catch.