Title: Cheap trash
Product review: Seems like John Terraine had (he's deceased) that obesssion to turn every battelfied disasters and military blunders of the British into something else, and in the process had judiciously/maliciously doctored his researches to cast the best possible light on what mere mortals will call fiascos.Read this as cheap trash fiction, as there are no references to sources, no bibiography at all. All we have is Terraine's words that the 'Old Contemptibles" were the most magnificient army in the world, that they trumphed every encounters with the Germans ( a division is supposed to be smashed by the bloody Tommies when they captured 78 prisoners!) and that every other one of those morons won a VC!Being the first work of fiction written by Terraine, this book sets the standard for his later owrks!
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