Article 2H2Z8 Death and glory: the first world war US general whose ambition did for his men

Death and glory: the first world war US general whose ambition did for his men

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Edward Helmore
from World news | The Guardian on (#2H2Z8)

Historian bucks US tradition to show how lives were needlessly lost

US military scholars have rarely been as willing as their British counterparts to find fault with leadership and execution - even when those failures cost thousands of allied servicemen's lives.

But as commemorations of the first world war's centenary continue, US military scholars, as their European counterparts did decades earlier, are going back to the original records and looking more closely.

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