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Haig's Command: Earl Haig and the Background to the First World War
Denis Winter
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hardcover. Clean copy fine in clipped dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
Dennis Winter sets out to expose and analyze a major historical fraud. His theme is the Western Front in Haig's time - from the Somme to the Armistice - and he has uncovered evidence that the documents from which other 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. Informal records such as ... Read more
Dennis Winter sets out to expose and analyze a major historical fraud. His theme is the Western Front in Haig's time - from the Somme to the Armistice - and he has uncovered evidence that the documents from which other 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. Informal records such as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
London : Viking
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780670802258
SKU
KMK0023839
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
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