7th Somersets - I absolutely fail to see what you get so upset about.
In my original post I wrote
a recurring theme [in Tuchman's book] is that the French cause is just because they were fighting to "free" the French province of Alsace-Lorraine that had been occupied by Germany after the war 1870/71. Tuchman somehow fails to mention that the region had been German for many centuries and had only been annexed by France after the Thirty-Years-War, and in 1871 still more than half of the inhabitants were native German speakers, so the issue is by no means as clear-cut as one is led to believe by this book.
Perhaps "had been German for centuries" is oversimplified but otherwise I fully stand by what I wrote because everyone who bothers to read up on the history of that province knows that Tuchman is simply wrong when writes as if Germany had malevolently annexed French heartlands.
Also, what is ludicrous about my other statements you cited? For example, if you took something from me by force, would that already prove that I had an undisputable claim to it in the first place? Would it not be necessary to investigate how I originally got possession?
And when areas of Eastern Germany where inhabited mainly by Polish-speaking subjects, did that not indicate that Poland could have some sort of claim to these areas?
As to the last quote - there are lots of people who noticed Tuchman's anti-German bias. Am I not allowed to mention it just because I'm a German and she was Jewish?
Once more: I'm not saying the Germans were the good guys, I only say things were not as black and white as one could assume after reading "Guns of August". If that already offends you then I cannot help it.