Thank you Keith, that's much appreciated, and may I please leave it with that title, Galwitz, of course you're spot on, mostly smashed barbed-wire mud as far as the eye can see and perhaps a few shattered trees which would be nothing like my diorama, its asking a lot from the reader to imagine the British and German just setting up defences, and at the same time engaged in open field combat, having said that, I actually wanted something a little different from the usual mud and blood, so I've tried to segment heavily forested to trench to broken buildings a bit of everything you could say, and yes I most certainly have chewed off more than I can eat, but I'll press on.