About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Prince Arthur of Connaught, Henry Clinton, Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, John Mytton, Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort, Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian, Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort, Henry Lowther, William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart, John Wilfred Stanier, Sir David Dundas, 1st Baronet, Sir William Russell, 2nd Baronet, John Weston Brooke, William Henry Clinton, George Howard, Augustus Anson, Charles Craufurd Fraser, Michael O'Moore Creagh, Robert Poore, Standish O'Grady, 2nd Viscount Guillamore, John Sanctuary Nicholson, Aldred Lumley, 10th Earl of Scarbrough, Dermot Chichester, 7th Marquess of Donegall, William George Hawtry Bankes, Sir William Erskine, 1st Baronet, William Kerr, 2nd Marquess of Lothian, Hilary Hook, Thomas Wildman, John Mostyn, Robin Carnegie, John Waldegrave, 6th Earl Waldegrave, Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet, James John Fraser, James Gardiner, Henry Roxby Benson. Excerpt: Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE, ADC, (19 June 1861 - 29 January 1928) was a British senior officer during World War I. He commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from 1915 to the end of the War. He was commander during the Battle of the Somme the battle with the highest casualties in British military history, the Third Battle of Ypres and the Hundred Days Offensive which led to the armistice in 1918. Although a popular commander during the immediate post-war years, with his funeral becoming a day of national mourning, Haig has since the 1960s become an object of criticism for his leadership during the First World War. Some dub him "Butcher Haig" for the two million British casualties under his command, and regard him as representing the very concept of class based incompetent commanders, cl...
