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May 28, 2016 · It was a process that began with the poems of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon’s Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and RC Sherriff’s play Journey’s End. It continued in the 1960s with The Donkeys...
Written by Haig on 1st July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme. We had heavy looses in men and material. As a result of the Somme we were completely exhausted on the Western Front… Defeat seemed inevitable. Autobiography of the German General Ludendorff, ‘My Wartime Memories 1914-1918’, written in 1919.
In an attempt to break the stalemate on the Western Front and relieve the pressure on the French at Verdun, Haig ordered the Somme offensive, which began on 1 July 1916.
Mar 27, 2019 · Generals who dwell on the reality of sending men to their deaths crack up. In reality, Haig felt deeply for the men under his command. As a Victorian army officer, he was imbued with a profound sense of paternalistic responsibility for his soldiers.
Oct 3, 1991 · In 1920, determined to safeguard his reputation for posterity, Haig asked his former chiefs of staffs, Lieutenant-General Sir Launcelot Kiggell and General Sir Herbert Lawrence to write a ‘Memorandum on Operations on the Western Front, 1916–1918’.
In August 1919, Haig wrote to John St Loe Strachey, editor of The Spectator, in response to a speech by Lloyd George. Haig argued that 1917 was "the most critical period of the war... it was only the continuous attacks of the British Army" which saved the Allies.
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Douglas Haig: The chief. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig commanded the British Army when it achieved arguably its greatest victories, those over the Germans on the Western Front during the First World War (1914-18). Under Haig, the British Empire engaged the main enemy in the main theatre of war and defeated it.
