The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #156088   Message #3685895
Posted By: Jim Carroll
15-Dec-14 - 10:01 AM
Thread Name: WWI, was No-Man's Land
Subject: RE: WWI, was No-Man's Land
"Jim, what current historian is supposed to have said that the jury is still out on Haig?"
Youv been given this s a link and as a cut-'n-paste - it seems too much to ask that you read what others have to say but at least read what you have put up yourself
Jim Carroll

WESTERN FRONT ASSOCIATION
"Conclusion
There is no evidence of a consensus about the reputation of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. By some he is greatly admired as a Commander-in-Chief bringing about victory in very difficult circumstances whilst having been neither particularly well served by the British politicians of the day, nor, frequently, by his Allied Commanders. Others are equally dismissive considering him to something of a dilettante aristocrat, overly favoured by royal patronage, and with scant concern, or care, for the troops under his command.
No doubt, DH's notoriously poor communication skills and deliberate remoteness, allied with the privations imposed on his troops by the ill-understood evolution of the stalemate of four years of increasingly technological trench-war, made it difficult for him to come to some kind of rapport with his huge army."