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Very good in good jacket. xii, 324 p. 23 cm. Illustrations. Maps. Chronological Table. Authorities Consulted. References. Index. Price clipped. DJ has some wear, edge tears, chips and soiling. From Wikipedia: "Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE, ADC (19 June 1861 29 January 1928) was a British senior officer during the First World War. He commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from 1915 to the end of the war. He was commander during the Battle of the Somme, the Third Battle of Ypres and the Hundred Days Offensive, which led to the armistice in 1918. Although he had gained a reputation during the immediate post-war years, with his funeral becoming a day of national mourning, Haig has since the 1960s become an object of criticism for his leadership during the First World War. Major-General Sir John Davidson, one of Haig's biographers, praised Haig's leadership and some historians have argued that the public failed to recognize the adoption of new tactics and technologies by forces under his command, and the important role played by British forces in the Allied victory of 1918." General Sir James Handyside Marshall-Cornwall KCB, CBE, DSO, MC (27 May 1887-1985) was a British Army officer and linguist. Cornwall was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery in 1907. On the outbreak of World War I Cornwall joined the Intelligence Corps at Le Havre. In 1916 he was promoted to temporary major at the general headquarters of the British expeditionary force, under Sir Douglas Haig. In 1918, Cornwall was posted to the War Office as head of the MI3 section of the military intelligence directorate, where he remained until the armistice. In 1919, Cornwall was sent to the peace conference in Paris, where he worked with Reginald Leeper and Harold Nicolson on the new boundaries of Europe. From 1928 to 1932 he held the post of military attaché in Berlin. In 1938, he was promoted to lieutenant-general, in charge of the air defence of Great Britain. In April 1941 Marshall-Cornwall became General Officer Commanding the British troops in Egypt. Marshall-Cornwall took over Western Command in November 1941, but was dismissed in the autumn of 1942 for going outside the proper channels to secure the safety of the Liverpool docks. He spent the rest of the war with the Special Operations Executive and MI6, attempting to promote better relations between them. He retired from the army in 1943. Between 1948 and 1951, he was editor-in-chief of captured German archives at the Foreign Office, and wrote military history. He was president of the Royal Geographical Society (1954-8). [7].