1. Is Sir Douglas Haig the Butcher of Somme?
A lot of people at that time thought that Haig was a heartless, idiotic savage beast; but historians tried to look at things in a different perspective and realized, maybe Haig wasn't a butcher after all since the outcomes were beneficial towards to British army. ... There is no way of avoiding this but our losses in this war have been no larger than were to be expected. ... Any Tommy could have told that shell fire lifts the wire up and drops it down, often in a worse tangle than before.... The British generals sent waves and waves of soldiers out onto the battlefields although the more...
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