Douglas Haig Gerard Groot (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 441pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with eleven maps and sixteen photographs. A small bump to the base of the backstrip, else in fine state with very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a single tiny enclosed tear to the rear panel. A biography of Haig produced "after eight years of painstaking and detailed research into previously neglected sources" - blurb.

first edition 441pp ills.[b/w] VERY GOOD+ (green cloth,owner's bookplate to ffep,eps and content edges sl.foxed) in VERY GOOD+ dustwrapper (sl.rubbed and soiled).

[0-04-440192-2] 1988. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 441pp. Maps, photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. The spine is lightly cocked, a remainder mark on the bottom edge, and the dust jacket is faded along the spine. "For seventy years Douglas Haig has been portrayed on the one hand as the 'Butcher of the Somme' - inept, insensitive and archaic; and on the other as the 'Saviour of Britain' - noble, unselfish and heroic. This polarised, strident and ultimately inconclusive argument has resulted in Haig becoming detached form his own persona". Biography of Douglas Haig. Book about British Army. Time Period 1914-1918 & 19th Century. (World War 1, Battle of the Somme, Biography, Boer War, World War 1).