Haig's Command

Haig's Command
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Publisher : Pen and Sword
Total Pages : 390
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ISBN-10 : 9781844152049
ISBN-13 : 1844152049
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Haig's Command by : Denis Winter

This book sets out to expose and analyse a major historical fraud. The author's theme is the Western Front in Haig's time - from the Somme to the armistice. Using evidence that the documents from which previous histories have been written are tampered-with and often entirely rewritten versions of the truth - for example, a daily war diary was kept by all units up to GHQ and these were often altered by the Cabinet Office and crucial appendices totally removed. Cabinet war minutes were likewise rewritten, with reference to whole meetings often removed. Records such as Haig's own diary were also tampered with, and Denis Winter even claims to have found documents which the war's official historian thought he had deliberately destroyed in the 1940s.

Sir Douglas Haig's Command

Sir Douglas Haig's Command
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 488
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015030676913
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Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Sir Douglas Haig's Command by : George Albemarle Bertie Dewar

Haig

Haig
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Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Total Pages : 205
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ISBN-10 : 9781612342610
ISBN-13 : 1612342612
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Haig by : Andrew A. Wiest

Douglas Haig's career is at the center of a debate concerning the nature of the Great War. Traditionalists contend that, like the majority of general from both sides, he was a hidebound relic of a bygone age who could not come to grips with modern war and sent his soldiers "over the top" in futile attacks, with a criminal disregard for the enormous cost in lives. Indeed, under Haig's leadership, the British Expeditionary Force fought its two signature battles of the war at the Somme and Passchendaele, earning him a reputation as a "butcher and bungler." A revisionist school now contends that wartime leaders, including Haig, inaugurated a phenomenal period of innovation, one that laid the foundations for modern warfare. This learning curve led from the killing fields of the Somme to the protoblitzkrieg tactics of the Hundred Days Battles. While the Hundred Days Battles often go unnoticed or unappreciated in the history of World War I, obscured as they were by the failures of earlier campaigns, here modern war came of age. Haig's role in that transformation makes him the central figure of the war on the western front.

The Chief

The Chief
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Publisher : Aurum
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 9781845137342
ISBN-13 : 1845137345
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis The Chief by : Gary Sheffield

‘Well written and persuasive …objective and well-rounded….this scholarly rehabilitation should be the standard biography’ **** Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday ‘A true judgment of him must lie somewhere between hero and zero, and in this detailed biography Gary Sheffield shows himself well qualified to make it … a balanced portrait’ Sunday Times ‘Solid scholarship and admirable advocacy’ Sunday Telegraph Douglas Haig is the single most controversial general in British history. In 1918, after his armies had won the First World War, he was feted as a saviour. But within twenty years his reputation was in ruins, and it has never recovered. In this fascinating biography, Professor Gary Sheffield reassesses Haig’s reputation, assessing his critical role in preparing the army for war.

Haig's Enemy

Haig's Enemy
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 400
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ISBN-10 : 9780199670468
ISBN-13 : 0199670463
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Haig's Enemy by : Jonathan Boff

During the First World War, the British army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the Imperial German Army, he held off the attacks of the British Expeditionary Force under Sir John French and then Sir Douglas Haig for four long years. But Rupprecht was to lose not only the war, but his son and his throne. In Haig's Enemy, Jonathan Boff explores the tragic tale of Rupprecht's war--the story of a man caught under the wheels of modern industrial warfare. Providing a fresh viewpoint on the history of the Western Front, Boff draws on extensive research in the German archives to offer a history of the First World War from the other side of the barbed wire. He revises conventional explanations of why the Germans lost with an in-depth analysis of the nature of command, and of the institutional development of the British, French, and German armies as modern warfare was born. Using Rupprecht's own diaries and letters, many of them never before published, Haig's Enemy views the Great War through the eyes of one of Germany's leading generals, shedding new light on many of the controversies of the Western Front. The picture which emerges is far removed from the sterile stalemate of myth. Instead, Boff re-draws the Western Front as a highly dynamic battlespace, both physical and intellectual, where three armies struggled not only to out-fight, but also to out-think, their enemy. The consequences of falling behind in the race to adapt would be more terrible than ever imagined.

Douglas Haig and the First World War

Douglas Haig and the First World War
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9780521898027
ISBN-13 : 0521898021
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Douglas Haig and the First World War by : J. P. Harris

Contains primary source material.

Architect of Victory

Architect of Victory
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Publisher : Birlinn
Total Pages : 728
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ISBN-10 : 9780857901248
ISBN-13 : 0857901249
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Architect of Victory by : Walter Reid

Douglas Haig's popular image as an unimaginative butcher is unenviable and unmerited. In fact, he masterminded a British-led victory over a continental opponent on a scale that has never been matched before or since. Contrary to myth, Haig was not a cavalry-obsessed, blinkered conservative, as satirised in Oh! What a Lovely War and Blackadder Goes Forth. Fascinated by technology, he pressed for the use of tanks, enthusiastically embraced air power, and encouraged the use of new techniques involving artillery and machine-guns. Above all, he presided over a change in infantry tactics from almost total reliance on the rifle towards all-arms, multi-weapons techniques that formed the basis of British army tactics until the 1970s. Prior re-evaluations of Haig's achievements have largely been limited to monographs and specialist writings. Walter Reid has written the first biography of Haig that takes into account modern military scholarship, giving a more rounded picture of the private man than has previously been available. What emerges is a picture of a comprehensible human being, not necessarily particularly likeable, but honourably ambitious, able and intelligent, and the man more than any other responsible for delivering victory in 1918.

Haig's Intelligence

Haig's Intelligence
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : 9781107039612
ISBN-13 : 1107039614
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Haig's Intelligence by : Jim Beach

Haig's Intelligence confronts a perennial question about the British on the Western Front: why did they think they were winning?

Haig's Generals

Haig's Generals
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Publisher : Pen and Sword
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 9781783034918
ISBN-13 : 1783034912
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Haig's Generals by : Ian F. W. Beckett

An in-depth study of Douglas Haig's army commanders on the Western Front during the First World War. Assesses their careers and characters, looks critically at their performance in command and examines their relationship with their subordinates and with Haig himself. Chapters are devoted to Allenby, Byng, Birdwood, Gough, Horne, Monro, Plumer, Rawlinson and Smith-Dorrien. Offers a fascinating insight into the mentality of these men and into their methods as they sought a solution to the problem of war on the Western Front. A fascinating and original contribution to the history of the war in the trenches.Contributors include: John Bourne, Matthew Hughes, John Lee, William Philpott, Simon Robbins, Gary Sheffield, Peter Simkins, Ian F. W. Beckett, Steven J. Corvi.