Thread: Personally, I have always thought Tedder the RAF’s equivalent of Monty and Dickie.
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Old October 24th, 2007, 01:06 PM
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Default Re: Personally, I have always thought Tedder the RAF’s equivalent of Monty and Dickie.
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Originally Posted by Squeeth View Post
You're welcome to your opinion although I'd suggest that d'Este and Hastings have been superseded by writers who have gone to primary sources rather than ex post facto image burnishings. My post is due to me finding some substance for the inference I'd formed that he was a bounder. You may consider him honourable and distinguished, I think he was a reptile. Peaty tends to agree.
1. Those were not 'my opinions', my fine fellow, they are the grounded opinions and assertions of sound historians.

2. Are you suggesting that Carlo D'Este and Max Hastings do not use primary sources? On what grounds do you imply that? Do you not consider Lord Scarman a primary source for Tedder?

3. How do you justify saying that Carlo D'Este and Hastings, both critical of Tedder and Montgomery where it is merited, are indulging in 'ex post facto image burnishing'?