| 1) July 1st, 1916. Not so much the first men over the top; they had been told the artillery barrage would obliterate the opposition, but the second and third waves who saw what happened to the first wave.
2) Not so much the decision to go to war in 1939, or even the BofB as such, but the decsion to stay in the war in 1940, after the French had surrendered, and there was no guarantee the Americans and Russians would join us. Common sense would have been to make peace with the Germans - it would have been a pact with the devil of course, but it must have been very tempting.
3) Agreeing to host the Olympics when we are already broke. |