Gervase misses the point entirely.

This isn't about the outcome. It is about the revision and sanitisation of a few people writing as historians which Keith is claiming to be the oracle and anybody who sees through the rewriting of history is therefore a "liar and psychopath."

Keith reckons "the historians" say everybody actually knew what they were there for and that sending waves of men into enemy machine gun fire systematically was good leadership.

Snag is, he cherry picks his precious "historians" and quoted them out of context even then.

If you think he is being genuine, ask him what he means by "the historians" or even what defines "historian."

Good luck!

(By the way, learning the words to an Eric Bogle song isn't necessarily the limit of WW1 knowledge. Comes over somewhat condescending. After all, we have Baldrick too! 😂)