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Old 06-08-2011, 07:26 PM
ATAG_Dutch ATAG_Dutch is offline
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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger View Post
That's what several historians think of him, it's a sort of common knowledge in the sector, and the way he writes is the reason of this judgement. I never met him personally, but according to a close friend who met him at a book signing event he apparently fits the bill of the typical "we English won the war cos we're better, period" delusional individuals.
Then neither you nor your so called historians or your close friend have read the book thoroughly enough, as it's precisely that sort of propagandist claptrap that Bungay sets out to disprove, on both sides.

Nor would any Englishman, to my knowledge, end a sentence with the word 'period'. It's called a 'full stop' here.

'Periods' are something else entirely.

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