Today on Murderhobos: Douglas Haig, the chief of the British Expeditionary Force in the First World War. Haig was a dashing figure in his youth, an up-and-comer in the military elite who has come to symbolically represent the incompetence and apathy of high command. But was Douglas Haig a butcher, or did the war he fought simply take on an appalling life of its own?

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