Sassoon and Owen were there - they had no political axe to grind
Your 'historians' were not - and have
Your 'historians' conclusions contradict long standing accounts, including the eye-witness ones you have neither responded to nor provided examples of ones you claim to support your views.
Once again you are dominating someones thread with your own twisted distortions and selectively part-quoting 'historians' to back your distortions - your 'Irish famine' technique all over again.
Any moment you are going to claim "I am no historian - don't blame me, I am only the messenger", as you have in the past.
The fact that millions died over a squabble between family members as to who should rule the world make W.W.1 made it 'one vast, useless, futile tragedy, worthy to be remembered only as a pitiable mistake' - no matter who claimed otherwise.
That is an inescapable fact - not an opinion.
Now - your "soldiers' diary" quotes rather than desperately searched for cut-'n-pastes - all unlinked - as is your wont.
Him Carroll