Classes in britian aren't to bad. My 'a' level teachers knew there stuff but when it came to anythin remotly linked to the military zilch. the main problme is that military history is considered a the bottom of the ladder as a field of historical study. a few month ago i had talk by proffessor terry copp and he used to be an eminent social historian but he ommented that he went down to the bottom of the ladder when he became interested in military history. unfortuanatly there is not enough interest in the subject in the academic world, therefore, most prospective teacher leave university as social or womens historians and don't really know what they are talking about when they have to teach military history.
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