In Haig's Shadow: Brigadier-General Hugo de Pree and the First World War

by Gary D. Sheffield

Hugo de Pree was the cousin of the better-known Field Marshall Douglas Haig. However, de Pree had a distinguished military career in his own right.

Educated at Eton and RMA Woolwich, de Pree grew up alongside Haig, primed for a career in the military. He served in the Boer War before the First World War began. He was sent to the Western Front, as Chief of Staff of IV Corps, coming into contact with his cousin at the Battle of Cambrai in 1917.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784383538
• ISBN13: 9781784383534
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Greenhill Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"