haig field marshal sir douglas (6 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

5½'' x 3½''. Divided back. Monochrome post card. Member of the P.B.F.A. MILITARY (Armed Warfare).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Muirhead Bone (illustrator). First Edition. A file containing five fascicles. The file has brown board covers with darker brown linen strip to spine; titles on paper label to spine and in black to front; the contents listed on rear board; the front board is rather rubbed and faintly marked; repaired splits to spine corners. The five parts are in very good condition in thick paper wraps with a Bone drawing to the fronts and they are priced separately at Sixty cents each; they are free of inscriptions; the five parts contain one hundred full page drawings by Bone who was an official war artist; each drawing is accompanied by a commentary on the opposite page; bindings are tight; no foxing except for a few spots to the early pages of Part I; some age toning but less pronounced in Parts II-V; small split and tiny chip to the spine base of Parts I and II; minute chip to the spine base of Part V; otherwise no tears or other damage. A fascinating pictorial record of the First World War.

English soldier and military historian (1885-1969). One page, quarto. Folded twice. Good, but with minor discoloration and some ink smudging along one edge (not affecting text). Bearing the Society's stamp. Replying, as Haig's private secretary, to a letter electing Haig a fellow of the Society. 'Sir Douglas Haig has asked me to thank you very much for your letter of the 25th instant and will be glad if you will convey to the Council and members of your Society his great appreciation of the honour they have done him. | The Field-Marshal does not think it necessary that you should send him notice of all meetings of your Council, but should you desire his presence on any particular occasion of some matter of importance, he will be greatly obliged to you if you can give him special notice.' Signed 'J H Boraston'. Also included a 12mo handbill issued by the Society, with Haig's address, 'noted 11th. June 1919', on the reverse.

Zustand: Very Good. A postcard-format gelatin silver photograph (136 × 87 mm), with 'Copyright Elliott & Fry, Ltd.' printed in the bottom margin. One tiny impression and a short surface scratch near the top margin of the recto; paper residue on the verso (remains of an old mount); overall in excellent condition, with the strong signature clearly visible. 'The Battle of the Somme was the first campaign launched by Sir Douglas Haig after he took over command of the British Army on the Western Front. His leadership during the battle made him one of the most controversial figures of the war and has been intensely disputed ever since. Haig entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1884 and then served with his regiment, the 7th Hussars, in India. He attended the Staff College, Camberley, in 1896 and saw active service during Sir Herbert Kitchener's 1898 campaign in the Sudan. Haig served under Sir John French on the staff of the Cavalry Division in South Africa during the Second Anglo-Boer War. When the British Expeditionary Force went to war in August 1914, Haig commanded I Corps at Mons, the Marne, the Aisne and First Ypres. He led the renamed First Army from December 1914, including during the battles of Neuve-Chapelle and Loos in 1915. Haig succeeded Field Marshal Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force on 19 December 1915. His period in command remains a much-debated subject among historians. He predicted a breakthrough in his offensives on the Somme in 1916 and at Ypres in 1917, but neither campaign delivered on this. Haig tended to emphasise the use of bigger forces and weightier artillery bombardments rather than tactical flexibility. He is also accused of persisting with costly operations longer than necessary, justifying them as battles of attrition when no decisive strategic advances were possible. At the Somme, his armies suffered more than 400,000 casualties for no significant gain. With the French still under pressure at Verdun, operations on the Somme were prolonged into the autumn, when poor weather meant the battlefield was little more than mud. Haig finally agreed to end the campaign on 18 November 1916, after nearly five months of battle. However, Haig displayed great tenacity during the crises in the spring of 1918 and acknowledged the value of a unified Allied command under Marshal Ferdinand Foch. Between 8 August 1918 and the end of the war, the forces led by Haig defeated the main body of the German Army in the greatest succession of victories in the British Army's history, a fact often obscured by his previous failures. He was created Earl Haig in 1919 and worked after the war to assist men who had served in it. In 1921, he helped establish the Earl Haig Fund, with the aim of providing help in time of need to all who served in the Armed Forces and their dependants. Douglas Haig died aged 66 in 1928' (Imperial War Museum website).