
S E4: RTH004 - Alex Mayhew on British WW1 Wartime Myths
Real Time History Podcast
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I Think That Haig's Funeral Is Evidence of a Continued Trust in Him as a Commander in Chief
Soldiers are able to disentangle him from their local command structures. Historians have pointed to haige's funeral as evidence of the fact that soldiers had this continued, not reverence, but relationship with him. As a commander that they didn't associate with the donkey smith. There were more people at haig's funeral than therewere at princess diana's. And nobody questioned the roal diana in british popular culture, but we have with hag. So peculiarly numerical bate is there.
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