Douglas Haig, 1861–1928: 2 (Routledge Library Editions: Historical Security) - Image 1

£137.61

Routledge Douglas Haig, 1861–1928: 2 (Routledge Library Editions: Historical Security)

Name: Douglas Haig, 1861-1928: 2 (Routledge Library Editions: Historical Security)
Brand: Routledge
Price: 128.8 GBP
Availability: InStock

Military

Price History & Forecast

Last 78 days • 78 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 78 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £138 (46 days, 59.0%)

Price range: £129 - £138

Price levels: 3 different prices over 78 days

Description

For seventy years Douglas Haig had been portrayed on the one hand as the ‘Butcher of the Somme’ – inept, insensitive and archaic; and on the other as the ‘Saviour of Britain’ – noble, unselfish and heroic. This polarised, strident and ultimately inconclusive argument had resulted in Haig becoming detached from his own persona; he had become a shallow symbol of a past age to be pilloried or praised. The middle ground in the Haig debate had been as barren as No Man’s Land. There should be no mystery about Haig. Certain from a very early age of his own greatness, he preserved every record of his achievements: diaries, letters, official reports etc. The opinions of his contemporaries are likewise readily available. But until this book the material had not been used to construct a complete and accurate picture. Critics and supporters have raided the historical records for evidence of the demi-god or demon and have ignored that which conflicts with their preconceptions. They have likewise raced through his early life in order to get to the war, in the process ignoring the complex process of his development as a soldier. Analyses of Haig’s command have consequently been as shallow as the prevailing images of the man. After eight years of painstaking and detailed research into previously neglected sources, Gerard De Groot gave us a more complete and balanced picture. This book, originally published in 1988, which will appeal both to the general and the specialised reader, is not simply a critique of Haig’s command in the war, but an exploration into his personality. Close attention to his early life and career reveals him as a creature of his society, a man who mirrored both the virtues and the faults of Edwardian Britain. What emerges is an intense, dedicated, but ultimately flawed servant of his country whose ironic fate it was to grow up in one age and to command in another.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0367635259
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Historical > Britain > Military
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 31 March 2021
Listed Since: 17 June 2020

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Douglas Haig, 1861–1928: 2 (Routledge Library Editions: Historical Security)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Churchill

Supreme Leadership in Modern War: Civil-Military Relations During Competition and War (Cass Military Studies)

The British Way in Warfare: Power and the International System, 18561956: Essays in Honour of David French

Geology of High-Level Nuclear Waste Disposal: An introduction

Un choc de cultures: Le regard des Anglais

Digital Science: DSIC 2021: 381 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 381)

Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in the 21st Century: 13 (Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 13)

Blooding the Regiment: An Account of the 22d Wisconsins Long and Difficult Apprenticeship

Indian Soldiers in the First World War: Re-visiting a Global Conflict (War and Society in South Asia)

Siegfried Unseld: Sein Leben in Bildern und Texten

Landscape Ecology and Water Management: Proceedings of IGU Rohtak Conference, Vol. 2 (Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences)

Handbook of Strategy and Management

Measuring Ego Development (Lea Series in Personality and Clinical Psychology)

GI ― 16. Jahrestagung II: Informatik-Anwendungen ― Trends und Perspektiven: 127 (Informatik-Fachberichte, 127)

Francois Mitterrand: A Study in Political Leadership

FreeCAD 0.19 Black Book

Reframing Globalization After COVID-19: Pandemic Diplomacy amid the Failure of Multilateral Cooperation

Management of Changes in Socio-Economic Systems: 135 (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 135)

Wertanalyse - das Tool im Value Management (VDI-Buch)

Australian War Graves Workers and World War One: Devoted Labour for the Lost, the Unknown but not Forgotten Dead

Algorithms in Machine Learning Paradigms: 870 (Studies in Computational Intelligence, 870)

From Empire to Exile: History and Memory within the Pied-Noir and Harki Communities, 1962–2012 (Studies in Modern French and Francophone History)