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Thanks for all that. My reading has become rather blinkered of late. I have just dug out one of my 'Bolshie' books on the subject, The Guinness Book of Military Blunders' by Geoffrey Regan. I will have a good read at that for starters.
The trouble is that I still talk to soldiers who sixty-eight years after a battle still feel guilty about losing or becoming POWs. They have had to work out for themselves that they were sent out to provide a glorious defeat. I'm thinking about Calais but the same affair happened at Verdun where thousands were sacrificed at The Somme so that the politicians could demonstrate their support for their French allies.
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