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A short film which Douglas Scott (1930-2010), the Field Marshal's grandson, made for Poppy Scotland in 2008 in which, inter alia, he reflects upon the historiography of the Great War and its often mendacious portrayals of the Field Marshal between Basil Liddell Hart in the 1930s and Alan Clark in the 1960s. Douglas was the son of the Field Marshal's second daughter, Victoria. In 2006 Douglas wrote and edited 'Douglas Haig - The Preparatory Prologue, Diaries & Letters 1861 - 1914', a judiciously