Any Tommy could have told that shell fire lifts the wire up and drops it down, often in a worse tangle than before.... They were so pessimistic that they accepted the fact that they were going to die and were predicting high casualties. ... The soldiers were usually friends from the same village therefore when they die; usually men from a whole village would be gone. ... Despite the number of soldiers dying, the commanders still didn't care, as if human lives weren't precious at all. ... Most importantly, The British learnt a lesson...

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Any Tommy could have told that shell fire lifts the wire up and drops it down, often in a worse tangle than before.... They were so pessimistic that they accepted the fact that they were going to die and were predicting high casualties. ... The soldiers were usually friends from the same village therefore when they die; usually men from a whole village would be gone. ... Despite the number of soldiers dying, the commanders still didn't care, as if human lives weren't precious at all. ... Most importantly, The British learnt a lesson...

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Not only did a lot of British soldiers die but Germans and French as well, this earned Haig with the title 'the Butcher of the Somme'. ... Any Tommy could have told that shell fire lifts the wire up and drops it down, often in a worse tangle than before.... They were so pessimistic that they accepted the fact that they were going to die and were predicting high casualties. ... The soldiers were usually friends from the same village therefore when they die; usually men from a whole village would be gone. ... Despite the number of soldiers dying, the commanders still didn't care,...

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