" The Flanders Campaign of 1917 was one of the most insane and brutal blood-baths in the history of war.
"For eight months the attacks ground away.  When winter and lack of 'cannon fodder' brought them to a halt, 500,000 men had been killed, wounded, gassed or driven insane in Flanders Fields.  For this fearful price, Haig had gained just four and a half miles!"

~ In FLANDERS FIELDS The 1917 Campaign, Leon Wolff, Ballantine Books, 1958/ The Viking Press Inc.