Douglas Haig The Educated Soldier

Author : John Terraine
Publisher : Leo Cooper Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Douglas Haig written by John Terraine and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author had completely free access to all Haig's private papers to provide a study of General Haig, and this work, which was first published in 1963, was considered at the time to be an important contribution in the historiography of World War I.

Author : John Terraine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Douglas Haig. The Educated Soldier. [With Plates, Including Portraits.]. written by John Terraine and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gary Sheffield
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1845137345
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chief written by Gary Sheffield and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘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.

Author : John Terraine
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445671468
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Win a War written by John Terraine and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert narrative of 1918, when the breakthrough was finally made, and everything it took to achieve victory.

Author : J. P. Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521898021
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Douglas Haig and the First World War written by J. P. Harris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains primary source material.

Author : John Terraine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haig written by John Terraine and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Terraine
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1848841922
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Right of the Line written by John Terraine and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, ‘the right of the line’ is the vanguard, the place of honour and greatest danger in battle. In this history of the Royal Air Force during the European War of 1939-45, John Terraine shows how the RAF, which in 1939 was small and inadequate for the task it was called upon to perform had, by the end of the war, taken up its proper position. He describes the build-up to war, the early tests in France and at Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, the Battle of the Atlantic, the RAF in North Africa and the Mediterranean, the strategic air offensive over Germany and eventual victory in Europe. ‘His best book yet’ The Times ‘John Terraine is a fine historian but he also believes that history should be exciting and readable’ The Listener

Author : Walter Reid
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857901249
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architect of Victory written by Walter Reid and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Gary Sheffield
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1781316171
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Douglas Haig written by Gary Sheffield and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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' - The 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. Drawing on previously unknown private papers and new scholarship unavailable when The Chief was first published, eminent First World War historian Gary Sheffield reassesses Haig's reputation, assessing his critical role in preparing the army for war.

Author : Gary Mead
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1782394966
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good Soldier written by Gary Mead and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.