Poetic Obituaries: Forty years on, in his book Tommy (2004),

[Richard] Holmes continued to repudiate the view, promoted by the war poets, that the troops of the First World War were poorly led. He also re-examined the enduring legends about the prevalence of shellshock, drunkenness in the trenches, and soldiers shot at dawn for cowardice or desertion, pointing out that 90 per cent of death sentences were commuted.

from Telegraph: Professor Richard Holmes

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