"Even on his death, the leader writer of the Times struggled to construct a an appropriate elegy, the best that could be mustered being Haigs great characteristic was thoroughness. A more recent historian described Haigs methods as plodding professionalism. As adjectives go thoroughness and plodding do not set the heart racing"..........

"This is true even if we acknowledge that his ambition for the battles he managed was inappropriately large for the tools at hand leading him into grotesque errors of judgement at Loos (1915, The Somme (1916) and the Third Ypres at Passchendaele (1917)..........

And he's still your hero......... amazing. There are plenty more were they came from.