John Terraine
1921
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2003
country of citizenship: United Kingdom
native language: English
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Keble College, Stamford School
occupation: screenwriter
award received: Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
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". Source: Wikipedia (en)
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