Comments by "Simon Nonymous" (@Simon_Nonymous) on "Why you should stop believing this WW1 myth" video.

  1. No, it was Alan Clark who attributed it to Ludendorff I think, but when later pressed as to the origin of the phrase, it is claimed he said he made it up. Apologies if I've not remembered totally correctly, but it's in Corrigan's "Mud, blood and poppycock' book.
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  2. Very good; the revisionist historians are well worth a read, and they do a lot to address perceptions that were shaped the post war writings of Churchill, Lloyd George, and Liddell Hart. You may not end up agreeing with them, but they go a long way to asking us if our commonly held beliefs are based on facts or not.
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