I certainly don't reserve judgement. It is a morally repugnant scheme that will be stain on our country. (View Post)

Against an enemy that was effectively already defeated, starved of supplies and facing collapse behind the lines. (View Post)

I know it is probably an oversimplification but I have always like AJP Taylor's Railway Timetables theory for one of the causes of WW1. (View Post)

There has been at least one candidate who ran for President from a prison cell. Eugene V. Debs was the Socialist party's nominee in 1920 while he was imprisoned under the Sedition Act. He had be… (View Post)

The main cheerleader for Haig and the other British WW1 commanders for many years was John Terraine. But he was just as biased in favour of Haig as Clarke had been against him. Indeed he descibed Hai… (View Post)