At the end of the day, show me figures to support Keith's extraordinary claim that the men were well led and that they understood and supported what they were letting themselves in for.
In the meantime, my photos I took of all those white headstones and when I paced out the twenty yards of ground that cost thousands of men.
The recent attempts to sanitise failure into victory and the apologist fools repeating it are a stain on the memory of a generation slain by arrogance.