" GUEST - 20 Nov 15 - 08:06 AM

Have you actually read Catriona Pennell's book "A United Kingdom" Keith."

More importantly GHOST - Have you?? If so please appraise us of what it is that alters anything stated so far. It would appear that Keith A knows the work and can actually give it it's correct title. Does she recount "special groups of military police" roaming about the front line gunning down British troops? Does she identify the incidents where British Officers summarily executed their own troops? Still can't get my head round the fact that NONE of these Officers or their "victims" have names - I mean if I'd joined up with my "pals battalion" I damn near would have known a good proportion of that band of 1,000 men and the Officers under whom we were all serving - Jim and the usual suspects haven't yet explained that little fact away have they - So boys, all you who know more than anyone else, tell us if the practice existed how come there are NO NAMES - not holding my breath, as they will not answer.

The other one, addressing the main point is how come if we were so appallingly led did we ever mannage to:

- Increase the size of our army tenfold
- never have a single instance of our troops mutinying at the front as occurred in the French Armies fighting alongside us.
- be the only army capable of mounting an offensive after having withstood the massive German Offensive in the spring and early summer of 1918
- carry-out what is recognised and acknowledged as being the most successful military offensive ever undertaken by British troops
- Win the war.

Over to you and your "experts" who for some strange reason very seldom happen to be specialists in the subject, or if they are are all pre-1970s vintage, whose works and conclusions have been discredited by information that has come to light since 1970.