Vividly written, and with the driest humor, this irreverent look at how Britain really won World War I demolishes myth upon myth. What becomes brilliantly (and amusingly) clear is just how many "established facts" have absolutely no basis in reality; instead they're fabrications created in the 1960s by young historians on the make. The soldiers from 1914-18 would simply not recognize their popular depiction on TV and in novels: instead, we see here how much the British embraced technology and developed the weapons and ...
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Vividly written, and with the driest humor, this irreverent look at how Britain really won World War I demolishes myth upon myth. What becomes brilliantly (and amusingly) clear is just how many "established facts" have absolutely no basis in reality; instead they're fabrications created in the 1960s by young historians on the make. The soldiers from 1914-18 would simply not recognize their popular depiction on TV and in novels: instead, we see here how much the British embraced technology and developed the weapons and tactics that broke through enemy trenches.
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