Battle of Passchendaele 1917: When Britain’s Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig wargamed 475,000 good men to mud, blood and futility
‘I died in hell’ – Passchendaele, Belgium July 31, 1917 during The 3rd Battle of Ypres. Enemy men share a human cigarette A human calamity too overwhelming to explain, just as most of those who returned never spoke a word. Trauma (‘shell…