Haig's Intelligence by Jim Beach
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.-
On a Knife Edge
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Uncivil War
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Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East
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How the War Was Won
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Rommel's Desert War
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Douglas Haig and the First World War
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Napoleon and the Struggle for Germany
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Learning to Fight
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Britain's Pacification of Palestine
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Anatomy of a Campaign
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Balancing Strategy
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The Making of the Modern Admiralty
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Thailand's Secret War
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German Strategy and the Path to Verdun
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Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War
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The Malayan Emergency
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Mussolini and his Generals
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The Foundations of British Maritime Ascendancy
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Enduring the Great War
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The Fall of Napoleon: Volume 1, The Allied Invasion of France, 1813–1814
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War's Logic
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Winning and Losing on the Western Front
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Victory through Coalition
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The Development of Military History in Britain
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Building an Air Force
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Leaving the Fight
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Moshe Dayan
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The German Army and the Defence of the Reich
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Foch in Command
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The Colonial Way of War
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Bombing the People
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Arms, Economics and British Strategy
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The Ottoman Road to War in 1914
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America's Wars
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Britain and Italy in the Era of the Great War
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Violence and Occupation
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Reporting the First World War
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Combat and Morale in the North African Campaign
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Holding Out
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The Generalissimo
'The word 'seminal' is all too often applied to books, but in the case of Haig's Intelligence it is thoroughly deserved … [Beach's] findings about Haig's relations with his intelligence officers feed directly into one of the most studied and controversial aspects of the field, and need to be integrated into existing scholarship on British high command in the First World War' Gary Sheffield, War in History
'Beach's superbly researched and carefully argued study is a rejoinder to … blinkered interpretations of the BEF's war and the role of the army's intelligence system in shaping it … Beach has written what will come to be seen as the definitive work on the BEF's intelligence system.' James Kitchen, Twentieth Century British History
'Beach's superbly researched and carefully argued study is a rejoinder to … blinkered interpretations of the BEF's war and the role of the army's intelligence system in shaping it … Beach has written what will come to be seen as the definitive work on the BEF's intelligence system.' James Kitchen, Twentieth Century British History
Dr Jim Beach is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century History at the University of Northampton. He is also Secretary of the Army Records Society.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781107039612 |
| ISBN 10 | 1107039614 |
| Title | Haig's Intelligence |
| Author | Jim Beach |
| Series | Cambridge Military Histories |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2013-10-24 |
| Number of pages | 386 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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