FWIW, I don't think No Man's Land is one of Bogle's best, but that's not the point. Neither is the appalling lash up which constitutes the vocal and the arrangement.

What is not beside the point is that the BL, or which ever record producer they appointed, took a song which is pointedly and uncompromising anti-miltarist, and ripped the guts out of it. They turned an anti-war song into an apology for war and that is unforgiveable.

I've just given a FWIW, so here's a BTW. I've read Eric Bogle's thoughts on the matter (see above) and can only say that he is being a lot more magnanimous than I would have been under similar circumstances. But I wonder what he makes of that blackboard slogan at the end of the video; the one which says one million men and women from Britain and the British Empire died in the first world war. I couldn't agree more. It is an appalling statistic. But what about all the other people; the other allied forces and the men and women on the opposing side?

Like the poet said, "All soldiers look the same in the grave".