This is fascinating: a historian (Dan Snow - for it is he) debunks popular myths about WW1 and receives hate mail from people because the truth does not match up with their own preconceptions/illusions/handed down family stories:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/10931918/Historian-Dan-Snow-received-hate-mail-for-debunking-World-War-I-myths.html
The only one that really surprised me was "Lions led by Donkeys": it was only recently that I read that Alan Clark (of Diaries fame) admitted making this up for his otherwise excellent book The Donkeys.
It's proably why I never got on with religion: I always want to corroborate my sources, or at least evaluate the authors as objective observers - always a vain hope when it comes to matters spiritual.
Once again we're back to Alan Bennett: that's not how it was; that's just how he thinks it was.
And tomorrow the July crisis begins in earnest...
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