The Good Soldier: The Biography of Douglas Haig

by Gary Mead

Book Overview

A balanced look at one of the most controversial commanders of World War I, using interviews with his son and new archival material to shed light onto an intensely private man

Posterity has not been kind to Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front for much of World War I. Haig has frequently been presented as a commander who sent his troops to slaughter in vast numbers at the Somme in 1916...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782392246
• ISBN13: 9781782392248
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Atlantic Books (UK)
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"