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'Lions led by donkeys' has long been the received view of General Haig and the loss of his troops in the Great War. This book is another work which supports the more contemporary view that the generals have been unfairly maligned. The horror of Passchendale of the 'Third Battle of Ypres' is geographically described, but wonderfully humanized by the extensive use of soldiers' accounts who were at the Front. Insights into how men could knowingly walk into almost certain death fill the pages. A paean to the unextinguishable spirit of humanity. (Kirkus UK)

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Nigel Steel and Peter Hart are both historians at the Imperial War Museum in London. They have collaborated on three previous titles, on Gallipoli, Jutland and the war in the air. Peter Hart was born in 1955. He went to Liverpool University before joining the Sound Archive at the Imperial War Museum in 1981. He is now Oral Historian at the Archive.

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