I have little opinion on Haig, he was just a tool of the politicians. But the fact remains that 17 million died, and people on here bang on about having "won", as if that matters. Most culpable probably was Sir Edward Grey, and although I posted a link earlier, I will quote what Andrew Adonis has to say about him:


"Because Sir Edward Grey was such a nice man, historians have followed his contemporaries in excusing the reality that he was such a disastrous minister: arguably the most incompetent foreign secretary of all time for his responsibility in taking Britain into the First World War, having failed in July 1914 to do all within his power to stop the conflagration."

Which sums up not only Sir Edward Grey, but also the apologist school of historians so beloved by Keith and Teribus.

Except that his "niceness" is blown out of the water by both his Oxford career (he seems basically to have bought a degree), and his "Lights are going out" quote. He knew what the consequences of his actions were, but he went ahead anyway. Thats not nice.