Table of Contents

Persistent, troubling questions; the butcher's bill - samples; dedicated futility - "bloody balls-up"; Gallipoli fiasco - "singularly brainless warfare"; townshend of Kut - "futile, expensive disaster"; Haig and the Somme - one day, 20,000 dead; Haig, Haking and Gough - "incompetence, callousness and vanity"; Haig and the H.C.I. fixation - "something to answer for"; carnage at Passchendaele - "this senseless and bloody struggle"; triumph at Cambrai - disaster at Cambrai; German breakthroughs - a better way to attack; "Master of the Field" - "a confession of impotency"; who won? - what else?; what the soldiers say - "just one long degradation".