Roast Mortem Cast
Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.
Displaying 1 Episode of Roast Mortem Cast with the tag “boer wars”.
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259 - Douglas Haig (pt1): Brogue, Boers and Brown Noses
November 24th, 2022 | 1 hr 38 mins
19th century, boer wars, comedy, england, history, military, military history, military leaders, scotland, scottish, south africa, sudan, warfare, wwi
We begin a deep dive into WWI's most controversial figures Field Marshall Douglas Haig a.k.a. The Butcher of the Somme. But before we get to the War to End All Wars. We take a look into his scottish, whiskey-distilling family, his money assisted climb up the social later and his time with the British Army in Africa.