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Author Re: Tit for tat
Nick

2004-09-28, 6:49 am

jurgenr@web.de (Jürgen R.) wrote in message news:<415522e8.6212072@news.individual.de>...(to Larry Parr):
quote:

> Larry Parr wrote:
>
> Toland was not a historian, neither major nor minor.
> He is the author of several bestsellers with historical themes.


Larry Parr seems determined to dispute that distinction.

"The attempt to deny that Toland is a major historian is simply tripe."
--Larry Parr (26 September 2004, in Parr's separately created OT thread)
quote:


Academic historians (such as Ian Kershaw) of Hitler tend to regard
John Toland's biography as much less important than Larry Parr does.
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> Name two or three of these, please.


Larry Parr seems to prefer to practise some name-calling in his
separately created OT thread than to answer Juergen's question directly.
quote:


In this thread, Larry Parr has misrepresented what I wrote
by his snipping and rearranging of my original text.
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> You mean the one that you believe.


Could Larry Parr have confused me with Niall Ferguson? :-)

--Nick
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