Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged — Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
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Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)

— Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
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