Haig-bashing
Michael Howard
- Haig’s Command: A Reassessment by Denis Winter
Viking, 362 pp, £18.99, February 1991, ISBN 0 670 80255 7
The German General Staff used to divide army officers into four categories: the clever and lazy, the clever and hard-working, the stupid and lazy and the stupid and hard-working. The clever and lazy made the best generals, the clever and hard-working the best staff-officers, the stupid and lazy could be fitted in as regimental officers; but the stupid and hard-working were a positive menace and had to be got rid of as quickly as possible. Douglas Haig belonged to the fourth group.
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Vol. 13 No. 8 · 25 April 1991 » Michael Howard » Haig-bashing
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