The Good Soldier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Good Soldier write by Gary Mead. This book was released on 2014-09-04. The Good Soldier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Posterity has not been kind to Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front for much of the First World War. Haig has frequently been presented as a commander who sent his troops to slaughter in vast numbers at the Somme in 1916 and at Passchendaele the following year. The Good Soldier re-examines Haig's record in these battles and presents his predicament with a fresh eye. More importantly, it re-evaluates Haig himself, exploring the nature of the man, turning to both his early life and army career before 1914, as well as his unstinting work on behalf of ex-servicemen's organizations after 1918. Finally, in this definitive biography, the man emerges from the myth.
The Chief
The Chief - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chief write by Gary Sheffield. This book was released on 2011-09-22. The Chief available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘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.
Douglas Haig, the Educated Soldier
Douglas Haig, the Educated Soldier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Douglas Haig, the Educated Soldier write by John Terraine. This book was released on 1963. Douglas Haig, the Educated Soldier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Douglas Haig and the First World War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Douglas Haig and the First World War write by J. P. Harris. This book was released on 2008-11-06. Douglas Haig and the First World War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contains primary source material.
Douglas Haig, 1861–1928
Douglas Haig, 1861–1928 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Douglas Haig, 1861–1928 write by Gerard J. De Groot. This book was released on 2021-03-30. Douglas Haig, 1861–1928 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For seventy years Douglas Haig had been portrayed on the one hand as the ‘Butcher of the Somme’ – inept, insensitive and archaic; and on the other as the ‘Saviour of Britain’ – noble, unselfish and heroic. This polarised, strident and ultimately inconclusive argument had resulted in Haig becoming detached from his own persona; he had become a shallow symbol of a past age to be pilloried or praised. The middle ground in the Haig debate had been as barren as No Man’s Land. There should be no mystery about Haig. Certain from a very early age of his own greatness, he preserved every record of his achievements: diaries, letters, official reports etc. The opinions of his contemporaries are likewise readily available. But until this book the material had not been used to construct a complete and accurate picture. Critics and supporters have raided the historical records for evidence of the demi-god or demon and have ignored that which conflicts with their preconceptions. They have likewise raced through his early life in order to get to the war, in the process ignoring the complex process of his development as a soldier. Analyses of Haig’s command have consequently been as shallow as the prevailing images of the man. After eight years of painstaking and detailed research into previously neglected sources, Gerard De Groot gave us a more complete and balanced picture. This book, originally published in 1988, which will appeal both to the general and the specialised reader, is not simply a critique of Haig’s command in the war, but an exploration into his personality. Close attention to his early life and career reveals him as a creature of his society, a man who mirrored both the virtues and the faults of Edwardian Britain. What emerges is an intense, dedicated, but ultimately flawed servant of his country whose ironic fate it was to grow up in one age and to command in another.
