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Christopher Duffy’s new book on the First World War’s Battle of the Somme shows how the Germans badly underestimated the British.

An excerpt from George Kerevan’s review:

The Prussian military believed the French and Russians were brave and worthy enemies, while the Brits were only in it for the money. Ordinary rank-and-file Germans were taught to believe the British started the war out of jealousy and were paying the French and Russians to encircle the Fatherland. The German high command and ordinary German footsoldiers were impatient to come to grips with the new British conscript armies that were expected to arrive in France in 1916. They would teach the ignorant, stupid Tommies a lesson they would never forget.

[HT: Arts & Letters Daily ]