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Sorry, can you say that again.

His book on Normandy is excellent. I only used it originally for some reference but lapped it up once I opened it.

Concerning your last point......... I agree. The truth is we are only ever one charismatic leader away from a conflict in this world.

What I found fascinating Buzzer was coming at it from one mans perspective or story if you like. It's the personalisation of it all that seems to get the impact across for me. The soldiers record that I wrote about was like a second father to me, taking us all round the country as kids to watch...

On a slight tangent the worst thing I ever read was the account of the battles on armistice day. To think that nearly four thousand of the Americans became casualties although the powers to be knew that hostilities would end on that very day. They had even agreed an actual time before that last...

Have you read Lloyd George's accounts in his memoirs of Haig ? He succumbed to the French pressure before Ypres 3...yes.. So I'll stick with my original opinion of the man. Next you'll be telling me that they never made their coffee out of mud.

Does the money collected still go to the Haig fund nowadays or have they stopped allying themselves with a man who took 2 and a half million young British soldiers to their pointless deaths.

Afghanistan and Pakistaan grow the best ones. I wouldn't get my opium anywhere else.