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Throughout this topic essay on Field Marshal Haig, whether he really deserved the title ‘The Butcher of the Somme’, I will look at different opinions of Haig and what he did during the Battle of the Somme. ... The name of this new commander was Field Marshal Haig. ... For 6 months Field Marshal Haig and his men set their trenches up along the River Somme until finally, on the 1st July 1916, Haig gave the orders to go over the top. Many men were killed and wounded then on 21st August; Haig went mad and sent 700,000 British soldiers to their death in one day!
People were sceptical of how Haig ran the British army and how his tactics worked. ... This was said by Haig’s personal secretary during the war.
Another opinion of Haig was said by a typical soldier in the war, which was ‘Haig’s methods of winning a war was clumsy, expensive in loss of life and just plain foolish’. ... A statement that would be correct and not biased towards any one person was said by Sir Llewellyn Woodward, a First World War researcher, ‘The methods that Haig uses to win a war are very costly in lives and he was misreading the facts’.
Approximate Word count = 830
Approximate Pages = 3.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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