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The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's Role in Literature and History

By Brian Bond

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0521809959, 9780521809955, 9780511042119
LCC
D546 .B66 2002
Open Library ID
OL3569272M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
516 kB (527903 bytes)
Pages
140\140
Topic
History
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36

Description

Brian Bond writes with blinders on. His revised edition has corrected errors in numbers of casualties, in the Vietnam War, for instance. He is adept at taking snippet quotes of, say, historian John Keegan, and turning it into a whitewashed revisionist position. Keegan, for instance, did not say that the best military leaders occurred during the Great War, as Bond implies. Bond is, after all, one of the new revisionist historians, who, despite showing some merit in examining some of the television and movie interpretations of the Great War, whines on consistently about the high moral leadership of the inept and self-righteous Alexander Haig, whilst undercutting more serious research/historians who have gathered the facts and presented them in a methodical way. Bond's 101 page diatribe (I omit his 5 page self-congratulation in being part of the Lees Knowles Lectures, which has nothing whatsoever to do with the main thesis of his book) of glossed-over facts, and poor research, is quickly read and poorly researched. Don't waste your time or money. He is the archetype of revisionist history.

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