... STRIKING A BALANCE A Breathing-Space THE Battle of the Somme has reached the familiar stage at which each side chivalrously concerns itself with the enormous losses of the other. That is usually a stage where offensive aspirations modify themselves in ...

... The man who would break off the Battle of the Somme in its fourth month would, a hundred years ago, have broken off the Battle of Waterloo in its fourth hour and lost Europe. Give Haig All He Asks For The Somme Battle must go on until it ...