1 R. Prior and T. Wilson, review of Denis Winter, Haig’s Command: A Reassessment, Australian War Memorial Journal XXIII, October 1993, p. 57.

2 D. Winter, Haig’s Command: A Reassessment (London,, 1991); Winter’s title was a conscious reference to G.A.B. Dewar and J.H. Boraston, Sir Douglas Haig’s Command: December 19, 1915 to November 11, 1918 (London, 1922).

3 In chronological order of publication: Dewar and Boraston, Sir Douglas Haig’s Command; J. Charteris, Field Marshal Earl Haig (London, 1929); D. Haig, The Man I Knew (Edinburgh, 1936); J. Charteris, Haig (London, 1933); A. Duff Cooper, Haig: A Biography (London, 1935); E.G. French, French Replies to Haig (London, 1936); J. Terraine, Haig: The Educated Soldier (London, 1963); G.S. Duncan, Douglas Haig As I Knew Him (London, 1966); E.K.G. Sixsmith, Haig As Military Commander (London, 1976); G.J. De Groot, Douglas Haig, 1861—1928 (London, 1988); P. Warner, Field Marshal Earl Haig (London, 1991); D. Winter, Haig’s Command: A Reassessment (London, 1991); plus R. Blake, ed., The Private Papers of Douglas Haig, 1914—1919 (London, 1952). See also B. Bond, ed., The First World War and British Military History (Oxford, 1991).

4 In chronological order of publication: the revised P. Warner, Field Marshal Earl Haig (London, 2001); D. Windsor, Earl Haig: Hero or Traitor? (London, 2002); W. Reid, Architect of Victory: Douglas Haig (Edinburgh, 2006); A. Wiest, Haig: the Evolution of a Commander (New York, 2006); G. Mead, The Good Soldier: The Biography of Douglas Haig (London, 2007); J.P. Harris, Douglas Haig and the First World War (Cambridge, 2008); plus the collection of essays, B. Bond and N. Cave, eds, Haig: A Re-Appraisal 70 Years On (London, 1999), to which the present reviewer contributed; D. Scott, ed., Douglas Haig: ‘The Preparatory Prologue’, 1861—1914. Diaries and Letters (London, 2006); and G. Sheffield and J. Bourne, eds, War Diaries and Letters, 1914—1918: The Diaries of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (London, 2005); earlier biographies of Haig also remain in print.

5 J.P. Harris, Men, Ideas and Tanks (Manchester, 1995).

6 E.g. The Western Front Association Front Forum: http://frontforum.westernfrontassociation. com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=510.

7 For neglect or disparagement of Haig as a military thinker see, e.g., A. Gat, A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War (Oxford, 2001), pp. 684—88; J. Luvas, The Education of an Army: British Military Thought 1815—1945 (Chicago, 1964), pp. 191—92 and 249—333; M.I. Handel, Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought (London, 2001).

8 Oliver, Viscount Esher, Journals and Letters of Reginald Viscount Esher, vol. 3, 1910—1915 (London, 1937), pp. 281—88.

9 E.g., S. Audoin-Rouzeau and A. Becker, 1914—1918: Understanding the Great War (London, 2002).

10 H. Strachan, ‘Back to the Trenches: Why Can’t British Historians Be Less Insular about the First World War?’, Times Literary Supplement, 5 November 2008 [review of M. Howard, introd., A Part of History: Aspects of the British Experience of the First World War (London, 2008)].

11 J. Winter and A. Prost, The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present (Cambridge, 2005), p. 80; J. Bourne, ‘Haig and the Historians’, in B. Bond and N. Cave, eds, Haig: A Re-appraisal 70 Years On (London, 1999), p. 1.

12 A. Howard, ‘Two Books about the First World War’, Daily Telegraph, 27 July 2009 [review of Harris, Douglas Haig and the First World War, and William Philpott, Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of the Twentieth Century (London, 2009)].

13 ‘Field Marshal Haig “Wanted to Give Germany Victory in 1918”, Author Says’, Daily Telegraph, 11 November 2008.

14 Strachan, ‘Back to the Trenches’.

15 [Field Marshal] D. Bramall, ‘The Butcher of the Somme Has Been Greatly Underestimated’, The Times, 7 August 2008.

16 J. Winter, Remembering War: The Great War between Memory and History in the Twentieth Century (New Haven, 2006), p. 216.

17 G. Stamp, ‘Memorials’, in Howard, Part of History, p. 151.

18 P. Harris and S. Marble, ‘The “Step-by-Step” Approach: British Military Thought and Operational Method on the Western Front, 1915—1917’, War in History XV (2008), pp. 17—42.

19 D. Lloyd George, War Memoirs of David Lloyd George II (London, [1935] 1938), p. 2038.

Book Review: Douglas Haig and the First World War. By J. P. Harris. Cambridge University Press. 2008. xi + 652 pp. £25.00 boards. ISBN 978 0 521 89802 7

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