There's a commonly held view that Douglas Haig was a bone-headed, callous butcher, who through his incompetence as commander of the British Army in WWI, killed a generation of young men on the Somme and Passchendaele. On the other hand there are those who view Haig as a man who successfully struggled with appalling difficulties to produce an army which took the lead in defeating Germany in 1918, winning the greatest series of victories in British Military history. Just as the success of the Alanbrooke war diaries can be ...
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There's a commonly held view that Douglas Haig was a bone-headed, callous butcher, who through his incompetence as commander of the British Army in WWI, killed a generation of young men on the Somme and Passchendaele. On the other hand there are those who view Haig as a man who successfully struggled with appalling difficulties to produce an army which took the lead in defeating Germany in 1918, winning the greatest series of victories in British Military history. Just as the success of the Alanbrooke war diaries can be put down to its 'horse's mouth' view of Churchill and the conduct of WWII, so Haig's Diaries, hitherto only previously available in bowdlerised form, give the C-in-C's view of Asquith - he records him getting drunk and incapable - and his successor Lloyd George, of whom he was highly critical. As Haig records the relationship it was stormy ('I have no great opinion of L.G as a man or leader' - Sept 1916). The diaries show him intriguing with the King (George V) vs. Lloyd George. Additional - and never previously published - are his day by day accounts of the key battles of the war, not least the Somme campaign of 1916.' I found Foch (Allied C-in-C) most selfish and obstinate...Foch suffers from a swollen head, and thinks himself another Napoleon.' Haig is revealed as an early admirer of the tank and of the 'airoplane'. He revels in turning the well-meaning BEF under Sir John French into the professional fighting force that eventualy one the war.
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Used-Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket. Edited by Gary Sheffield & John Bourne. B&W illustrations. A little wear to dust jacket otherwise a clean, tidy copy.
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Very Good. Very Good Jacket. Size: 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo); First Edition, first impression. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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Good in black boards. World War I-General The war diaries of Douglas Haig, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army on the Western Front beginning with the tentative days of the British Expeditionary Force in July-August 1914. They end after the Armistice in November 1918. UL-XXXXXX. 550pp illustrations.
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1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered grey cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. x + 550, illus with b&w photos (no inscriptions).
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Fine in Fine jacket. Dustwrapper, stout 8vo, pp. x, 550. Bw plates. Very fine in wrapper. A heavy book weighing c1300g when wrapped, exceeding the default weight of 1000g used for the postage quotation, and thus invoking a request for the excess postage at cost at the time of ordering. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.