Right, now I have built my time machine, I have a choice;

Do I travel back 100 years to see what it was really like?
Do I travel forward 100 years to see what the living historians make of it?

I shan't bother offering a lift to Keith because either way, I doubt he would like what he saw.

Neither Teribus nor Keith seem willing to look at the facts, relying instead on contradictory publications written for their own means.

You need neither historians nor a CSE in history to see the result of sending waves of men over the top, hoping to wear down the enemy. You can see photographs of the jingoism and propaganda in place. You can see accounts of the work of the red tops and court martial system.

Sanitised, glorified and stupified.

Shame on you both.