"Lesser men with guilty consciences "

Lesser because they were less callous? Guilty because they didn't order men over the top to certain death in the absence of a competent military plan?

Haig was revered through a propaganda campaign to deflect attention from veterans with missing limbs begging in the street. From the gaps in every town, village, family and community.

He was called the butcher of The Somme by those hanging on his meat hooks.