How could I quote without reading Jim?
The quotes from the Historians specialising in that conflict supported my case.
Steve, I have read extensively about the Somme.
The losses were huge and the whole nation was stricken with grief and loss.
The battle had to be fought and fought there.
The French were about to break at neighbouring Verdun and all would have been lost.
A badly led attack would have resulted in even worse losses and a German counter attack and break through on the whole front.
Did you read my quotes from Brown' s book about it?
Would you like more?