SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S DESPATCHES 1915-1919 2 Vols WW1 Western Front, BEF, Maps

by D Haig

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img{max-width:100%} a.imagelink {color:#0000FF;} a:hover.imagelink {color:#0000FF;} a:visited.imagelink {color:#800080;} a.imagelink img.auctionimage { border: 2px solid #0000FF; } a:visited.imagelink img.auctionimage { border: 2px solid #800080; } SIR DOUGLAS HAIG'S DESPATCHES DECEMBER 1915 - APRIL 1919. Edited by LIEUT. COLONEL J. H. BORASTON Foreword by JOHN TERRAINE LONDON: J. M. DENT 1979 With original 1919 Map volume. Marking the sixtieth anniversary of the first publication of Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches, this reissue, which contains a modern assessment of Haig by the eminent military historian, John Terraine, will be a welcome addition to the shelves of specialist and layman alike. By means of these Despatches, Haig 'sought to convey to my countrymen the information it was their right to possess concerning the progress and prospects of the war; to make those at home understand the full nature of the difficulties with which our Armies in the field had to contend, and the magnificent spirit and determination by which all difficulties were overcome'. The Despatches provide Haig's own account of the events of the war, free from the distortions of later controversy, for even today Haig is still a highly controversial figure, subject to widely differing judgments. He has been, particularly in the early period after the war, the victim of a vast army of detractors who have presented him as stupid, obstinate, insensitive and unimaginative. John Terraine's new

• Year: 1915
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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