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Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914-18
edited by Gary Sheffield and John Bourne.
Weidenfeld, 550 pp., £25, March 2005,0 297 84702 3 Show More
edited by Gary Sheffield and John Bourne.
Weidenfeld, 550 pp., £25, March 2005,
“... credit for the outcome. With the Armistice in place, he returned home to receive the accolades of king and country. Elevated to a peerage, he became Earl Haig of Bemersyde. Then with almost unseemly haste, he was eased into oblivion. In the war’s aftermath, Winston Churchill wrote, Haig ‘was given no work. He did not join in the counsels of the nation; he ... ”