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Trench War And Leadership. My Family At War

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  Posted by DougWild (U13673884) on Tuesday, 4th November 2008

  Was Dan Snow right to have misgivings about His Grand Fathers role in The Great War? Would General Snow have been expected to contribute to the battle plans of his men in the course of the war? What I mean is, was it General Snows job to make suggestions at management meetings in the Army at the time and would this have been expected of him. We all Know that these were the days before the SAS, Commandos,tanks.mechanised transport, and proper aerial recon. and so on, So what could the General have done to contribute to the war to make a real difference? and why ( if this was the case ) was he not expected to do So.....

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  Posted by DL (U1683040) on Monday, 10th November 2008

  Basically, his grandfather was in command of a division. That's a lot of men. Was Dan Snow right to have misgivings about his ancestor's role? Absolutely. I felt for Dan Snow, as it was pretty obvious how horrified he was at Gen. Snow's actions.
  Although the amount of individual control he would have had over his division (8,000 men) during the 1st day on the Somme is probably minimal, Gen. Snow's reaction was (in my opinion) obscene. His men followed their orders and got slaughtered, and in true "Lions led by donkeys" style, he blamed the dead for "lack of offensive spirit".
  Enough said really.

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  Posted by vera1950 (U9920163) on Wednesday, 12th November 2008

  A bad workman always blames his tools -thats what Gen Snow did.
  Not a competnt fellow I think.He showed a degree of cowardice in him by his remarks.
  I think his grandson proved to be a better and more courageous man.

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  Posted by Is_Richo_in_yet (U1776441) on Wednesday, 21st January 2009

  Have just joined this forum and found this.
  
  This is a very shallow and superficial view of General Snow's war career. He was actually a corps commander. Furthermore, at Cambrai in November 1917, he rightly predicted an imminent German counter-attack, correctly guessing the day it would take place and tried desperately hard to get his army commander to take notice in an effort to save men's lives.
  
  No general in any conflict ever set out to get his own men killed and the shallow 'lions led by donkeys' portrayal of First World War British generals is now so old fashioned and at variance with the real facts that it has become a cliche.
  Please try and read some modern writings on the First World War (even those on this Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ site) and move beyond a repeition of trite labels.

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