... second volume carries the story from the close of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 to the end of Haig's life. For many people the chief interest will lie in the seventy-five pages on the genesis and battle of Passchendaele. Broadly speaking, the causes which ...

... a hospital ward he is a man of forty-one who remembers nothing after the previous shock of a wound received in the Battle of the Somme seventeen years previously. His mentality slips back to its development at the age of twenty-four, and the intervening ...

... Bristol Btn the Gloucestershire Regiment. The battalion more than played its part in the Great War, as is shown by its battle honours the Somme, 1916, Albert, 1916, Langemarck, 1917, Ypres, 1917 Bazentin, Pozieres and Poelcapelle and now a new chapter in its ...

... soldier attempting to carry on with a pack of politicians snarling for ever at his heels. This volume ends with the Battle of the Somme. Its opinions are as clear and decisive as the character of its subject. The politicians have had their say Haig still ...