Douglas Haig: From the Somme to Victory

After the 1918 Armistice and until his death in 1928, Douglas Haig was hailed as a British national hero; by the mid 1930s, his reputation lay in ruins, with Lloyd Georgeâ€s war memoirs in particular portraying him as an incompetent general. In this major biography, based on Haigâ€s writings, official documents and the writings of contemporaries, Professor Sheffield offers a more rounded portrait, and combines conventional biography with an examination of Haigâ€s role within the British Army of the First World War.