... attack. Here we are told what Haig thought of the situation, "very successful attack this morning." He says this in good confidence followed by, "all went like clockwork." We know for a fact that the first day of battle was the most amount of casualties ever seen by Britain at one time. This battle lost the lives of 620,000 British and French men; many are left to wonder how Haig could say it all went like clockwork. The fact of the matter is that according to what Haig said in his statement of 1916 (source A) it did all go to plan. Haig managed to hit the Germans hard and as expected lost the lives of many men, but he did say, "The nation must be taught to bear losses." Source C is the complete opposites of B; it is the experience of a private that actually fought in the battle. ...

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