The slaughter of WWI...America's fault?!?

Great Debates
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[QUOTE=Mr. Miskatonic]
…I have not been impressed with Jon Mosier’s (author of ‘The Myth of the Great War’) work at all…
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Can you recommend a repudiation of his work?

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[QUOTE=Will Repair]
Can you recommend a repudiation of his work?
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You can read several effective criticism right on Amazon. These are not the usual “He sux” reviews, but people who have read far more than Mosier. The lead review used to be a very good one.

There’s also the fact that Mosier tries to present old hat as new material (The Blitzkrieg myth is an example of this - most of the ‘myth’ he’s claiming to bust was busted years ago) and still manages to screw up the job.

Worse still, he takes an offensive tone when explaining his (allegedly poor) choice of source material in his book, while in the end notes he tries to defend his efforts, badly.

I’m not a great critic and even I can see massive holes and mistakes in TBM. That alone should speak volumes. When I can see the writer hiding potential data right ont he words on the page I have to suspect something is rotten in the conclusions.

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[QUOTE=Slithy Tove]
Taking that as my license, I recently read on Wikipedia’s list of surviving WWI vets that two of centarians in Finland are each veterans of their 1918 Civil War: Lennart Rönnbäck, who served in the White Guards, and Aarne Armas Arvonen, who served in the Red Guards. I must acknowledge a base impulse that we wheel them into the same, small room and settle this once and for all.
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As one who has, while sitting at dinner next to a gent who pointed at the book I held that claimed to be about the Fokker DVII and who said, “You know, I used to fly them…,” I think I can safely say that they’d come to a draw.

Sorry, all of you who think WWI ended in 1918. :frowning:

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[QUOTE=BlinkingDuck]
I don’t know how you could ask for a better ally as the U.S. than England. England has been the bestest bud the U.S. could ask for.

Make to mistake, you English dopers…the attitude of many of the U.S. citizens is the same. If, in the future, England was threatened the U.S. would rush to their side.

As a friend once said…if France was invaded, he’d be very concerned but mainly about how the it would affect the U.S and him…same with Germany and other nations. However, if England was invaded, he’d look for a rifle to personally help. That is the difference.
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We tend not to be outspoken but we know who our best friend is and appreciate it.