war changed from one of rapid and brutal movement into the now familiar image of the trenches and the coming of the Territorials, Kitchener's 'Pals', and ultimately the conscripts - and of course the poets. And with them, that terrible sense of the pity and of the futility. Too Important for the Generals: Winning and Losing the First World War (2017). In this work Mallinson argues that recent defences of General Douglas Haig and other are mistaken - and that critics of the strategy and tactics of the First World War (such as Winston Churchill) were actually correct, but that the critics lacked the power to put their ideas into practice. For example, Winston Churchill could suggest alternative approaches - but he did not have the power to pick what commanders would carry out his ideas. Notes References External links Short biography at Transworld Publishers 1949 births Living people 13th/18th Royal Hussars officers 21st-century English novelists Military personnel from Yorkshire British Army brigadiers English historical novelists King's Own Royal Border Regiment officers Writers of historical fiction set in the modern age English male novelists Alumni of St Chad's College, Durham 21st-century English male writers