, 16 October 2011 (UTC) :If you are unwilling to accept the OH as a source I think you need to justify your decision with a bit more than inference - you could say the same about any source. See Andrew Green Writing the Great War for a recent (2004) rebuttal of polemical views of the OH and a spirited counterblast to Travers's The Killing Ground.... (1987). Notice also the congruence of the OH and the German sources. Bear in mind also that the OH has a big mistake in it which has greatly influenced the 'stalemate school' (even as it is contradicted by other parts of the book and the appendices sections). In general I have found all the Wiki pages on Passchendaele (and the linked articles that I have been working on) accurate representations of sources but historiographically about 20-25 years behind the times.  19:45