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James H


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(Apologies to non-British friends. The name Paxman will not have the same significance.)

Short reference to the Tank in Jeremy's account of the War. Not very enlightened - Germans surrendering in droves, etc. A British invention, of course. Florid description. And I'll have to listen again, but I'm sure he said it appeared in 1917. Much work remains to be done . . .

They did manage to get Bov's War Horse Mk IV into it, behind JP's piece to camera.



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Yes he did,indeed, say 1917! Disappointed that the tank didn't have more coverage but, after all, he is covering the whole of the war and it's overall impact on Britain in just 4 one hour broadcasts.

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On Tuesday mornings on radio 4 there has been a series of programmes on propaganda in WW1. Most interesting how revisionist  historians play an important role in how we see WW1.



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Oh, dear. He does say, "1917."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03vc2rw/Britains_Great_War_The_Darkest_Hour/   About 38' 30" in. (Sorry, probably not available outside UK)

Four minutes or so of potted history, so you can't have everything (and about half of it is about Tank Banks) but one would have hoped for rather better than the familiar and rather simplistic accounts. You can write a short, accurate paragraph just as easily as a short, inaccurate one. And Paxo's question, "Might this, at last, be the weapon to break the stalemate and beat the Germans?" goes unanswered, with no explanation as to whether it was or why it wasn't.

RCD - thanks for that. Hadn't spotted it.

 

P.S. The memsahib pointed out that Paxo is quite remarkably bandy.



-- Edited by James H on Tuesday 11th of February 2014 12:58:02 PM

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My Grandfather was a WW1 Tank Commander, and I believe his first action (and therefore that of the Tank) was at Verdun, France in 1916. In fact, after the war, he named his first son George Verdun, I assume in honour of the action he saw there.

Historical documentation and the research I have conducted all say the tank's first action was in the Somme. But my Grandfather named his son Verdun!!

 

 



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