Rag,
No professor I suggest you read because it might, just might, give you an insight into the various truces that happened throughout WW1 not just Christmas 1914 but Christmas 1915, 1916 and 1917.

So you have not read any book on the subject!
I have.

Professor, how the **** you can make such a statement when you haven't actually read the book should amaze me, but it doesn't.

It would be a rubbish biography if it gave a one sided view of the man.
I have read Sheffield's biography which concludes he was a competent general, but gives a balanced account. If you just picked out the negatives you could give the same false impression.

I have no doubt that Mead's book is the same. The title is very positive about Haig which gives a clue to the overall view. You have been deceitfully and dishonestly giving a false impression of the work.

Jim, millions of British men served as soldiers.
Individual anecdotes do not give a balanced view, and may be wholly unrepresentative.
Historians study the accounts of thousands to give a balanced and representative view.