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We Will Not Fight By Will Ellsworth- Jones Aurum Pounds 18.99 Pounds 17.10 (0845 606 4213)
ack in April 1916, General Sir Douglas Haig had a word with the Chief of Imperial General Staff concerning the rough number of soldiers he planned to send to their deaths in the coming months. 'I said that if I attacked say with 450,000 men the War Office should be prepared to provide 50 per cent wastage of that number in two months,' he confided to his diary.See the full content of this document
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The Hero Who Wouldn't Fight ; Book of the Week
Looking at these figures today, with the sense of the disposability of human beings encapsulated in Haig's use of a word like 'wastage', it is not hard to sympathise with those who refused to fight. In fact, Haig's estimates for wastage proved absurdly optimistic: there were 57,000 British casualties on the very first day of the Battle of the Somme, and, ...
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