[RLK]

In other words, the only reason the British marched in orderly rows into the killing fields in 1916 was because they thought the Germans wouldn't be there

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There were movie cameras at the time, although not very good ones. On some TV documentaries there are quasi newsreels showing British walking steadfastly at high port and being mowed down. It's on old film. The British lost 4,500,000 men. Don't you think it a bit strange to deny somebody is there when the guy to the left and right of you is being killed?

[Junior]

The British didn't know the Germans were up and about until they closed with the German trench line. The Germans weren't firing as soon as the British cleared the trenches in the Somme offensive.