So fruitless in its results, so depressing in its direction was the 1917 offensive, that ‘Passchendaele’ has come to be synonym for military failure, a name black-bordered in the records of the British Army. — Basil Liddell Hart, 1934 Rarely does one word trap an image with such nerve tingling fright and awe.  But as an … Continue reading Memories of Futility: The Passchendaele Method of War