Question 3 Sources D and E aren’t about Haig and the battle of the Somme. How far do you agree that they have no use for the historian studying Haig and the battle of the Somme? Source D is a still from the TV series ‘Blackadder goes forth’ it shows 2 officers discussing an imminent attack on the Germans. This was written years and years after the war. Source E is a cartoon from a British magazine published in February 1917 at the time of the war, so automatically you know that source E is going to be bias source D is going to be bias in some ways as it is a comical and it takes the mick out of one of either the Germans of the English to make people laugh. In the first speech bubble in source D Blackadder says, “my instincts lead me to believe that we are at last about to go
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