| GNREP8 | 29 Dec 2014 4:04 p.m. PST |
Interesting article re said advert in the FT
link Surprising how many people still either want to believe the old 'Oh What a Lovely War' approach or seem keen to give the invaders of Belgium an excuse (whilst saying how terrible war is!). I'm also not at all sure that (aside from the RN) that someone British saying that German militarism played a major part in the move to war is the pot calling the kettle black! |
| JimDuncanUK | 29 Dec 2014 4:54 p.m. PST |
This wants me to register to read the article. No thanks! |
| artaxerxes | 29 Dec 2014 5:11 p.m. PST |
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| Winston Smith | 29 Dec 2014 5:36 p.m. PST |
Both links require registration.
Nope. |
| artaxerxes | 29 Dec 2014 5:50 p.m. PST |
I googled the article title and got straight through to the link I posted without registration. Not sure the article is worth the effort though. |
| JimDuncanUK | 30 Dec 2014 7:06 a.m. PST |
The Telegraphs version is here! link |
| GNREP8 | 30 Dec 2014 3:57 p.m. PST |
Good to see that the DT version also has its extremists from the 'all those who took part should have been shot or hung' (I do hope that person, wanting even more death and killing, doesn't have a job involving any sort of responsibility or management of other people) to the agitprop Spartists and Oh What a Lovely War types. Actually that one day soldiers could be talking to each other and the next day back to shooting is not a failure of humanity but in a way very human and the type of people who don't understand that have likely never been in the military or indeed any public service organisation. |
 ColCampbell  | 31 Dec 2014 11:25 a.m. PST |
This was also very common in the American Civil War when pickets of both sides would exchange tobacco and coffee one day and trade shots the next. Jim |
| Inkpaduta | 31 Dec 2014 12:05 p.m. PST |
Geez, light up. It's a commercial dealing with an event that really happened. Some people just need to complain about everything. |
| spontoon | 01 Jan 2015 10:12 a.m. PST |
@Inkpaduta; Actually there's not a lot of evidence that this ever happened. No participants ever recorded it happening. Probably none survived! |
| GNREP8 | 03 Jan 2015 2:22 p.m. PST |
Actually there's not a lot of evidence that this ever happened. No participants ever recorded it happening. Probably none survived!
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you mean the football as opposed to the local truces I presume |
| spontoon | 03 Jan 2015 3:00 p.m. PST |
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| Inkpaduta | 05 Jan 2015 11:52 a.m. PST |
I was speaking about the truce, not the football. |
rebases some old soldiers.
