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Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918 (Paperback)
Short Description for Douglas HaigThe diaries of the most controversial British general of the twentieth century.
Full description- Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Published: 04 May 2006
- Format: Paperback 560 pages
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- Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military | European History | Military History | First World War
- ISBN 13: 9780753820759 ISBN 10: 0753820757
- Sales rank: 566,543
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Full description for Douglas Haig
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. 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 his day by day accounts of the key battles of the war, not least the Somme campaign of 1916.
