Mud, Blood and Poppycock
The true story of how Britain won the First World War.
The popular view of the First World War remains that of BLACKADDER: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general''s remark that the British soldiers were ''lions led by donkeys''. But he made it up.
Indeed, many established ''facts'' about 1914-18 turn out to be myths woven in the 1960s by young...
The true story of how Britain won the First World War.
The popular view of the First World War remains that of BLACKADDER: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general''s remark that the British soldiers were ''lions led by donkeys''. But he made it up.
Indeed, many established ''facts'' about 1914-18 turn out to be myths woven in the 1960s by young...
