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1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 369 pages)
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ISBN:
9781139600521
Series Statement:
Cambridge military histories
Content:
Haig's Intelligence is an important study of Douglas Haig's controversial command during the First World War. Based on extensive new research, it addresses a perennial question about the British army on the Western Front between 1916 and 1918: why did they think they were winning? Jim Beach reveals how the British perceived the German army through a study of the development of the British intelligence system, its personnel and the ways in which intelligence was gathered. He also examines how intelligence shaped strategy and operations by exploring the influence of intelligence in creating perceptions of the enemy. He shows for the first time exactly what the British knew about their opponent, when and how and, in so doing, sheds significant new light on continuing controversies about the British army's conduct of operations in France and Belgium and the relationship between Haig and his chief intelligence officer, John Charteris
Content:
Organisation -- Leadership -- Personnel -- Frontline -- Espionage -- Photography -- Signals -- Analysis -- Somme -- Arras -- Third Ypres -- Cambrai -- German offensives -- Hundred days -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Identifications of German units at the front, 1916-1918 -- Appendix 2: Contribution of sources to identification of German units at the front, 1916-1918 -- Appendix 3: British assessments of German divisions on the Western Front, October 1918
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107039612
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107519275
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9781107039612
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139600521
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