Description
Book SynopsisThis is an important study of Douglas Haig's controversial command during the First World War. It reveals how the British Army perceived its enemy and how intelligence influenced strategy and operations. This is essential reading for military historians, intelligence scholars and anyone with an interest in the Great War.
Trade Review'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
Table of ContentsPart I: 1. Organisation; 2. Leadership; 3. Personnel; 4. Front line; 5. Espionage; 6. Photography; 7. Signals; 8. Analysis; Part II: 9. Somme; 10. Arras; 11. Third Ypres; 12. Cambrai; 13. German offensives; 14. Hundred days.
