ABSTRACT
The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) will cut a peculiarly sad figure in this book, and its leader for most of the war, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, will appear almost as a failure. Undeniably, it seems self-contradictory to claim that the winning side of a war had serious malfunctions. Before I dive into the subject matter, I will therefore say something about the assessment of military performance.
