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- From: oml@eloka.demon.co.uk (Owen Lewis)
- Newsgroups: sci.military
- Subject: Re: Fuller's "Military History of the Western World"
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 15:57:00 GMT
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- From oml@eloka.demon.co.uk (Owen Lewis)
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- In article <C1F6zC.KtI@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> lioness@maple.circa.ufl.edu writes:
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- >Has anyone got J. Fuller's "A Military History of the Western World
- >Vols. 1-3"?
- >
- >How accurate/good are the books' analyses? Are there any better books
- >out there that cover advanced strategy and tactics?
- >
- The books are masterly. Make sure you are buying facsimiles of the original
- text and not a late and 'politically' edited edition.
-
- Fuller was a brilliant soldier who became a Fascist and became Chief of Staff
- to Sir Oswald Moseley the British Fascist Party leader. Accordingly, he was
- interned for the duration of WWII,during which time he wrote most of his 3-vol
- masterpiece.
-
- To put it mildly, his political insight into the rise of fascism and the
- causes of the Second World War are contoversial and run contrary to generally
- received political education. Truth is a victor's perogative. While not
- supporting his thesis, I believe that it contains several unpalatable facts
- which we are encouraged to forget - as well as unproven fascist myth.
-
- Later re-print editions bowdlerise Fuller's text, removing such 'contaminatory'
- material.
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