Irish doctor defends Haig

Lloyd-George’s memoirs did more than anyone else to foment the belief that the British Tommies were ‘lions led by donkeys’ and the biggest donkey of all was General Douglas Haig, but another picture emerges from an Irishman who knew him better than most, Col Eugene ‘Mickey’ Ryan






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