Hugh Cecil

Will Haig end up as a cuddly toy?

issue 21 January 2006

  • The Great War: Myth and Memory

    Dan Todman

    Hambledon & London, pp. 299

If you ask most people in Britain today for their views on the first world war, they tell you that it was a futile holocaust in which our nation’s brave and disillusioned young men were herded into a hell of mud and machine-gun fire by incompetent products of the English public schools.

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