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Item Details
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ARCHITECT OF VICTORY
DOUGLAS HAIG |
| By: |
Walter Reid |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£10.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1843410451 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781843410454 |
| Publisher: |
BIRLINN GENERAL |
| Pub. date: |
18 September, 2009 |
| Pages: |
496 |
| Description: |
Douglas Haig masterminded a British-led victory over a continental opponent. 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. This biography takes into account modern military scholarship. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
16 pp b&w illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Birlinn Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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