Part 1 Haig's credentials: personal credentials; professional credentials. Part 2 The attrition battles of 1916-17: the Somme; Passchendaele - the roots; Passchendaele - the battle; Cambrai. Part 3 The attrition period - Haig's weaknesses: the tool; the execution; the common denominator. Part 4 1918 - a year of mobility: March 1918 - the German offensive; August 1918 - a turning point?; the last hundred days - an advance to victory?. Part 5 Falsifying the record: Haig's fictions; the government's support of Haig.
Denis Winter was born in 1940. After reading History at Pembroke College, Cambridge he taught in London for twenty years. His other books on the First World War are DEATH'S MEN and THE FIRST OF THE FEW which were also published by Penguin.
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