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John Terraine

John Alfred Terraine, FRHistS (15 January 1921 – 28 December 2003) was an English military historian and TV screenwriter. He is best known as the lead screenwriter for the landmark 1960s BBC-TV documentary ''The Great War'', about the First World War, and for his defence of British General Douglas Haig – who commanded the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from late 1915 until the end of the war – against charges that he was "The Butcher of the Somme". Provided by Wikipedia
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