He doesn't know when to shut up Steve. He just knows when not to be proud if his words.

Once more. If they were well led, the strategy of sending waves of men into the German machine guns, followed by more men in order to wear them down was planned.

I doubt a single credible narrator of the war justifies that under the "well led" banner.

By the way, interesting article on BBC News website this morning about how commercial interests cashed in on the jingoism and propaganda.

To reconcile that with Keith's analysis of his precious historians needs a rather vivid imagination and to be fair, I'd never put him down as being so creative.