Do sources D (i) and D (ii) provide any useful information for the historian studying Haig’s decision to attack Ypres in 1917? Explain your answer.

... Do sources D (i) and D (ii) provide any useful information for the historian studying Haig's decision to attack Ypres in 1917? Explain your answer. The main problem so to speak is that both of the sources have only looked at the situation within the trenches and have not looked at the main picture, which is that if they don't go on attacking the Germans the French army will collapse and the Germans will win the battle. Source D (i) is a very bitter account written by Trevor Wilson about a man who has told him his views and opinions about the situation in hand. He has written about the bad conditions that his men have to perform in mud, rain; these are not the conditions of an army that wants to win the war. He can see that the allied army is very unorganised because they can't even keep there trenches

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