J. P. Harris

Douglas Haig and the First World War

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Produktbeschreibung

Major new biography of one of the most controversial commanders in British military history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 666
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 949g
• ISBN-13: 9780521158770
• ISBN-10: 052115877X
• Artikelnr.: 27083376

Autorenporträt

J. P. Harris is a Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. His publications include Men, Ideas and Tanks (1995) and Amiens to the Armistice (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Boyhood and early career
2. South Africa to the Curragh crisis
3. Anxiously to war
4. From the Marne to the Salient
5. Army commander
6. Aubers Ridge to Givenchy
7. The Battle of Loos
8. Commander-in-Chief
9. The Battle of the Somme (1)
10. The Battle of the Somme (2)
11. Lloyd George and Nivelle
12. The Battle of Arras and the Nivelle Offensive
13. Flanders Fields
14. The third Battle of Ypres
15. The Battle of Cambrai
16. The last war winter
17. The German March offensives
18. The turn of the tide
19. The final campaign
20. The post-war years
Conclusion.