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Haig's Command: A Reassessment

Categorie	WO I
Boeknummer	#298418
Titel	Haig's Command: A Reassessment
Auteur	Winter, Denis
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : Penguin Classics
Jaar van uitgave	2001
ISBN10	014139093X
ISBN13	9780141390932
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original wrappers, illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Denis Winter sets out to expose and analyze a major historical fraud. His theme is the Western Front in Haig's time - from the Somme to the Armistice - and he has uncovered evidence that the documents from which previous histories have been written are tampered-with and often entirely rewritten versions of the truth. For example, a daily war diary was kept by all units up to GHQ and these were often altered by the cabinet office and crucial appendices totally removed; cabinet war minutes were likewise rewritten, With reference to whole meetings often removed. Records such as Haig's own diary were also tampered with, and Denis Winter even claims to have found documents which the war's official historian thought he had deliberately destroyed in the 1940s. Denis Winter's material includes m... (Lees verder)inutes of "missing" cabinet meetings, and other material.
Pagina's	362
Conditie	Goed — Paper browned; creases in spine.
Prijs	€ 8,00

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