Douglas Haig
Diaries and Letters 1914-1918
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 at 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.Haig's diaries, hitherto only previously available in bowdlerised form, give the C-in-C's view of Asquith and his successor Lloyd George, of whom he was highly critical. The diaries show him intriguing with the King vs. Lloyd George. Additional are…
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Weitere Autoren: Bourne, John / Sheffield, Gary (Hrsg.) / Bourne, John (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4746-0335-5
- EAN: 9781474603355
- Produktnummer: 22513145
- Verlag: Orion
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 576 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'453 KB
- Abbildungen: 8
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Gary Sheffield,John Bourne
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