TO WHAT EXTENT IS IT FAIR TO CALL GENERAL HAIG THE ' BUTCHER OF THE SOMME' The Battle of the Somme was important and crucial to the development of the First World War; and earmarked the final result o
TO WHAT EXTENT IS IT FAIR TO CALL GENERAL HAIG THE ' BUTCHER OF THE SOMME' The Battle of the Somme was important and crucial to the development of the First World War; and earmarked the final result o
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TO WHAT EXTENT IS IT FAIR TO CALL GENERAL HAIG THE ' BUTCHER OF THE SOMME'
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The Battle of the Somme was important and crucial to the development of the First World War; and earmarked the final result of the War. Both the Allies and the Germans were extremely eager to make some achievement in order to boost the morale of the armed forces and the confidence of their own countrymen after a long period of stalemate in the various battle fronts. They were both prepared to exhaust all means to win over the other.
General Haig was definitely under very great pressure from the British Government as well as his allies to determine and win the war as quickly as possible. He would have thought that if the war was