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Thread #156088   Message #3685910
Posted By: Jim Carroll
15-Dec-14 - 10:58 AM
Thread Name: WWI, was No-Man's Land
Subject: RE: WWI, was No-Man's Land
"Mended link."
Thanks Guest - how are you on cars that won't start?
We are still being given a picture of a "well conducted war" run by Generals who can't get on with each other being stabbed in the back by politicians
"Oh, oh, oh what a lovely war", in fact.
That Haig wasn't known as "The Butcher of the Somme" in his own lifetime has more to do with the secrecy surrounding the War than his abilities as a leader.
After all, if we're not allowed to refer to what dead historians wrote, what does it matter what they thought a century ago, especially those who didn't have 'historian' qulifications
Jim Carroll