The history of the Western Front and the First World War is one of battles of attrition against an entrenched enemy, with terrible casualties suffered by both s

The author had completely free access to all Haig's private papers to provide a study of General Haig, and this work, which was first published in 1963, was con

‘Well written and persuasive …objective and well-rounded….this scholarly rehabilitation should be the standard biography’ **** Andrew Roberts, Mail on S

Contains primary source material.

An expert narrative of 1918, when the breakthrough was finally made, and everything it took to achieve victory.