Author: Earl Douglas Haig Haig
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches (December 1915-April 1919)
Author: Earl Douglas Haig Haig
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches, December 1915-April 1919
Author: Earl Douglas Haig Haig
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Despatches (December 1915-April 1919)
Author: Douglas Haig (Earl Haig)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches (December 1915-April 1919)
Author: Sir Douglas Haig
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Haig's Command
Author: Denis Winter
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844152049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844152049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
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 Despatches (December 1915 - April 1919)
Author: John Herbert Boraston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
With Our Backs to the Wall
Author: David Stevenson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674063198
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 747
Book Description
With so much at stake and so much already lost, why did World War I end with a whimper-an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? After more than four years of desperate fighting, with victories sometimes measured in feet and inches, why did the Allies reject the option of advancing into Germany in 1918 and taking Berlin? Most histories of the Great War focus on the avoidability of its beginning. This book brings a laser-like focus to its ominous end-the Allies' incomplete victory, and the tragic ramifications for world peace just two decades later. In the most comprehensive account to date of the conflict's endgame, David Stevenson approaches the events of 1918 from a truly international perspective, examining the positions and perspectives of combatants on both sides, as well as the impact of the Russian Revolution. Stevenson pays close attention to America's effort in its first twentieth-century war, including its naval and military contribution, army recruitment, industrial mobilization, and home-front politics. Alongside military and political developments, he adds new information about the crucial role of economics and logistics. The Allies' eventual success, Stevenson shows, was due to new organizational methods of managing men and materiel and to increased combat effectiveness resulting partly from technological innovation. These factors, combined with Germany's disastrous military offensive in spring 1918, ensured an Allied victory-but not a conclusive German defeat.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674063198
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 747
Book Description
With so much at stake and so much already lost, why did World War I end with a whimper-an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? After more than four years of desperate fighting, with victories sometimes measured in feet and inches, why did the Allies reject the option of advancing into Germany in 1918 and taking Berlin? Most histories of the Great War focus on the avoidability of its beginning. This book brings a laser-like focus to its ominous end-the Allies' incomplete victory, and the tragic ramifications for world peace just two decades later. In the most comprehensive account to date of the conflict's endgame, David Stevenson approaches the events of 1918 from a truly international perspective, examining the positions and perspectives of combatants on both sides, as well as the impact of the Russian Revolution. Stevenson pays close attention to America's effort in its first twentieth-century war, including its naval and military contribution, army recruitment, industrial mobilization, and home-front politics. Alongside military and political developments, he adds new information about the crucial role of economics and logistics. The Allies' eventual success, Stevenson shows, was due to new organizational methods of managing men and materiel and to increased combat effectiveness resulting partly from technological innovation. These factors, combined with Germany's disastrous military offensive in spring 1918, ensured an Allied victory-but not a conclusive German defeat.
Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches
Author: Sir Douglas Haig
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Douglas Haig, the Educated Soldier
Author: John Terraine
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The history of the Western Front and the First World War is one of battles of attrition against an entrenched enemy, with terrible casualties suffered by both sides in some of the worst fighting ever. In this history the picture has emerged of British generals remote and detached from the reality of the trenches who repeatedly sent their men to die in pointless attacks against the enemy. This book, by the renowned historian of the First World War John Terraine, scrupulously researched and brilliantly written, takes a more objective and accurate approach to the figure of Haig - the supreme commander of the British Army - and to the history of the War.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The history of the Western Front and the First World War is one of battles of attrition against an entrenched enemy, with terrible casualties suffered by both sides in some of the worst fighting ever. In this history the picture has emerged of British generals remote and detached from the reality of the trenches who repeatedly sent their men to die in pointless attacks against the enemy. This book, by the renowned historian of the First World War John Terraine, scrupulously researched and brilliantly written, takes a more objective and accurate approach to the figure of Haig - the supreme commander of the British Army - and to the history of the War.
Douglas Haig and the First World War
Author: J. P. Harris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521898021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Contains primary source material.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521898021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Contains primary source material.