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In "The Guns of August", Barbara Tuchman paints Sir John French, commander of the BEF, as almost cowardly in his persistent and, in her apparent view, unnecessary southward retreat through France in late August 1914. Is this a consensus view of modern historians?

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In "The Guns of August", Barbara Tuchman paints Sir John French, commander of the BEF, as almost cowardly in his persistent and, in her apparent view, unnecessary southward retreat through France in late August 1914. Is this a consensus view of modern historians?	261