Terraine, John
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Name (Latin)
Terraine, John
Date of birth
1921-01-15
Date of death
2003-12-28
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
b. 1921
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Sources of Information
- His Mons, the retreat to victory, 1960.
Wikipedia description:
John Alfred Terraine, FRHistS (15 January 1921 – 28 December 2003) was an English military historian and TV screenwriter. He is best known as the lead screenwriter for the landmark 1960s BBC-TV documentary The Great War, about the First World War, and for his defence of British General Douglas Haig – who commanded the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from late 1915 until the end of the war – against charges that he was "The Butcher of the Somme".
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