Architect of victory Douglas Haig
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...
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Birlinn
2006
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Table of Contents:
- Butcher and Bungler or Architect of Victory?
- Family and Youth
- In Top Boots Amongst the Intellectuals: Haig at Oxford. Sandhurst at last
- Regimental Life. India. Johnnie French
- Repulsed and then Victorious. Staff College
- Active Service in the Sudan War
- The South African War. Regimental Command. The Debate over Cavalry. India
- Emerges into Society. Marries
- At the War Office with Haldane. Army Reforms. India again
- 'The Best Command in the Army' and 'The Ugliest Man in the Army': Aldershot and Henry Wilson
- War. The Army searches for its Role. The Great Retreat. Fisrt Ypres. Haig on the Menin Road
- Disputed Appointments. Neuve Chapelle
- The Approach to Loos
- Loos: Destruction of the BEF and Creation of a Commander-in-Chief
- Haig's Command
- The Somme
- Deceit and Misinformation: The Calais Conference Backfires on Lloyd George. Arras
- The Abandonment of Attrition. Third Ypres
- Third Ypres, Passchendaele. Cambrai
- The Enemy in Whitehall
- Kaiserschlacht. The Doullens Conference and Unified Command. Haig Takes the Initiative
- The Hundred Days. 'There Never Has Been Such a Victory'
- Sunset