The history of the Western Front and the First World War is one of battles of attrition against an entrenched enemy, with terrible casualties suffered by both sides in some of the worst fighting ever. In this history the picture has emerged of British generals remote and detached from the reality of the trenches who repeatedly sent their men to die in pointless attacks against the enemy. This book, by the renowned historian of the First World War John Terraine, scrupulously researched and brilliantly written, takes a more objective and accurate approach to the figure of Haig - the supreme commander of the British Army - and to the history of the War.
- ISBN10 0304353191
- ISBN13 9780304353194
- Publish Date 23 March 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 August 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld Military
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 528
- Language English