Haig's command : a reassessment / Denis Winter
London : Viking, 1991. First edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #338509
ISBN: 0670802255
Physical description: xi, 362p: ill, 9maps. Notes: Bibliography: p.335-356.
D: N J N Newington-Irving. Contents: List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Summary of the Chief Events of Haig's Life -- Introduction -- Haig's Credentials -- The Attrition Battles of 1916-17 -- The Attrition Period: Haig's Weaknesses -- 1918: A Year of Mobility -- Falsifying the Record -- Biographical Sketches -- Appendix 1 Sources Used: An Evaluation -- Appendix 2 Haig: A Political Intriguer? -- References -- Index. Subjects: Haig, Douglas Earl Haig 1861-1928 Biography. Great Britain. Army Biography. Generals Great Britain Biography. World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Western. World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Western Front. Command of troops. History Errors, inventions, etc. Summary: "This book sets out to expose and analyze a major historical fraud. The author's theme is the Western Front in Haig's time - from the Somme to the armistice. Using evidence that the documents from which previous histories have been written are tampered-with and often entirely rewritten versions of the truth - for example, a daily war diary was kept by all units up to GHQ and these were often altered by the Cabinet Office and crucial appendices totally removed. Cabinet war minutes were likewise rewritten, with reference to whole meetings often removed. Records such as Haig's own diary were also tampered with, and Denis Winter even claims to have found documents which the war's official historian thought he had deliberately destroyed in the 1940s."
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