Haig's Command: A Reassessment"This book sets out to expose and analyze a major historical fraud. The author's theme is the Western Front in Haig's time - from the Somme to the armistice. Using evidence that the documents from which previous histories have been written are tampered-with and often entirely rewritten versions of the truth - for example, a daily war diary was kept by all units up to GHQ and these were often altered by the Cabinet Office and crucial appendices totally removed. Cabinet war minutes were likewise rewritten, with reference to whole meetings often removed. Records such as Haig's own diary were also tampered with, and Denis Winter even claims to have found documents which the war's official historian thought he had deliberately destroyed in the 1940s." -- Goodreads.com. |
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Page 91
... wire meant that the British had to use a powerful barrage even though the Salient was close to sea level and had a water table near the surface even at the height of summer . There was no escaping the dilemma and no obvious solution to ...
... wire meant that the British had to use a powerful barrage even though the Salient was close to sea level and had a water table near the surface even at the height of summer . There was no escaping the dilemma and no obvious solution to ...
Page 127
... wire charts they took an hour to negotiate twenty - two belts of German barbed wire . By the time the rest of the division caught up with the vanguard , it was 3.30 pm , dusk was falling and further advance was necessarily halted . The ...
... wire charts they took an hour to negotiate twenty - two belts of German barbed wire . By the time the rest of the division caught up with the vanguard , it was 3.30 pm , dusk was falling and further advance was necessarily halted . The ...
Page 236
... wire had been used during that month alone , but that is the only reference to barbed wire in the diary and only makes sense in relation to a charge made by the Canadian Prime Minister - in June 1918 ! And so it goes on.22 Post - war ...
... wire had been used during that month alone , but that is the only reference to barbed wire in the diary and only makes sense in relation to a charge made by the Canadian Prime Minister - in June 1918 ! And so it goes on.22 Post - war ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
HAIGS CREDENTIALS | 9 |
Personal Credentials 11 3 Professional Credentials | 28 |
Copyright | |
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