1. Is Haig the Butcher of the Somme?
... savage beast; but historians tried to look at things in a different perspective and realised, maybe Haig wasn't a butcher after all since the outcomes were beneficial towards to British army. Firstly, Haig has responsibility on the Battle's objectives. The Battle of Somme, which they called The Big Push's aim was to ... possible to get through? Any Tommy could have told that shell fire lifts the wire up and drops it down, often in a worse tangle than before." From this source we can see that the German wire was so strong and reinforced, no British could walk past it. This wasted ... shoo...
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