03-14-2015, 03:29 PM
Quote:I don't think we will ever be there.
I don't think there was ever much chance we would be. ;-)
There are so many unknown factors in this, and some pretty basic questions with no agreed answer, that (barring some spectacular archaeological discovery) we won't reach a consensus opinion, and all we're ever going to be able to do is talk around the subject.
But I'd agree with John - these five years of debate have been engaging and fascinating, and probably generated more new ideas about this (fairly obscure) conflict than the majority of recent published history. A page or so ago I grumbled about people 'making up their own stories about what happened' - it occurs to me that this is all any of us can do. Personally, I'm fine with that! :-)
Quote:alternatives to the 'cavalry dash and Mancetter' dogma. It is a major disappointment to me that the papers from the Warwick conference were not published.
Although most of the papers seem to agree with the dogma, more or less...
Nathan Ross