DOUGLAS HAIG : War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
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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. These are therefore the diaries of the most controversial British general of the twentieth century. 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 bowdlerized 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 well as his never previously published day by day accounts of the key battles of the war, not least the Somme campaign of 1916.
DOUGLAS HAIG: War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson),Gary Sheffield,Cassell,0297847023,Campaigns,Correspondence,Diaries,Great Britain,History,History - Military / War,Marshals,Military,Military - General,Military - World War I,Science/Mathematics,Western Front,World War, 1914-1918,Biography: general,History / Military / World War I,Warfare & Defence
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