Truth and the casualties of war Nov 10, 2008
In recent years even the performance of the British Field Marshal Douglas Haig has been favourably reassessed - most notably in Walter Reid's Architect of Victory: Douglas Haig. Fortunately, ABC1 has provided some needed balance. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
The pen versus the sword Nov 7, 2008
Looking smug, a wheedling Charles Bean, official Australian war correspondent, turns to Field Marshal Douglas Haig, and says: "With respect, sir, Monash is he's Jewish and as a race they do tend to be pushy.". Bean, with newspaperman Keith Murdoch - Rupert's father - are seeing Haig in early 1918 on behalf of prime minister Billy Hughes to press for a native-born commander for a united Australian Corps on the Western Front. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Battle of Amiens, WWI Victory at Gr... Aug 11, 2008
Under the leadership of Mar;chal Ferdinand Foch, the team of British Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig, General Sir Henry Rawlinson, Lt. General Richard Butler and Sir John Monash, Commander of the Australian Divisions, plus Sir Arthur Currie and Lt. General Charles Cavanaugh of the Canadian contingent, planned an invasion in utmost secrecy. Divisions were quietly moved into place, while German intelligence was not certain just where those divisions had moved to. (Suite101.com)
The Order of Bath Jun 26, 2008
Famous Members of the Order of the Thistle include: Douglas Haig, John Stirling, Olaf. V of Norway, Baron Thomas Erskine, Garnet Joseph Wolseley. (Suite101.com)
wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald Jun 24, 2008
As you can see the girl, of course, represents that inhibited attraction that all men show to a wild + beautiful woman". The greyer a mans life is the more it comes out. But if I d have explained the story in anyway but a dream it would have been a regular Max Beerbohm extravaganza + hence furthur over people s heads that it is now. But I do think to come out + say it was all a dream in so many words would cheapen + rather spoil the story. SincerelyF Scott Fitzgerald 1921 To Carl Hovey Fri,... (Harper's Magazine)
Paul Gross's obsession, our country's horror Jun 21, 2008
British commander Sir Douglas Haig turned to Currie for help. He protested the assignment, but cobbled together a strategy that 100,000 Canadian soldiers, from a nascent nation of just eight million people, followed with tenacity and guts once they joined the battle in late October. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
History out, celebrities in as top publisher wields axe Apr 6, 2008
Drury said he believed the books commissioned but then ditched by Wude a biography of one of Britain's most controversial military leaders, Field Marshal Douglas Haig, and an account of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann's capture by Israeli agents in Argentina in 1960, including groundbreaking interviews with Argentinian and Israeli participants. Recent Orion titles have included Keep Smiling, the second autobiography by Charlotte Church, and, under the Wd, My Life Behaving Badly: The... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Silence on the Somme Sep 8, 2007
But almost every top-ranking British general from Douglas Haig down regarded Monash as an outstanding officer, and the biographer of British prime minister David Lloyd George wrote that, had the war continued into 1919, it was the PM's intention to rid himself of Haig and appoint Monash in his place. At the beginning of 1918, in the depths of the unusually cold and wet winter, with impassable roads and the fields of Flanders and Picardy like quagmires, activity on the Western Front was limited. (The Australian)
Blair's well-trodden road to Damascus Jul 24, 2007
The offensive achieved mixed success and Allenby's performance was criticized by army commander Sir Douglas Haig. In turn, Allenby's supporters argued that his tactics were sound. (Asia Times Online)
Queen to pay respects to Passchendaele dead Jul 14, 2007
General Sir Douglas Haig, the British Commander-in-Chief, was so desperate for a win in the unusually wet summer of 1917 that he ignored the pleas of generals Gough and Plumer to spare their exhausted troops and ordered the Passchendaele offensive. The land is all clay and when we get rain the mud is over our boot tops, wrote Ronald, in one of his last letters home. (Times Online)
Ninety years to forget, but his bloody war lives on Jul 14, 2007
The offensive was the brainchild of the British commander-in-chief, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, and did not take long to bog down in the morass created by incessant artillery bombardment and rain. Casualties mounted. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
The last survivor of Passchendaele Jul 1, 2007
Passchendaele, officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres, cost 300,000 allied lives for the sake of five miles conquered during three months of attrition under the command of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. The war poet Siegfried Sassoon gave it the epitaph: 'I died in hell - they called it Passchendaele. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Obituaries for June 12, 2007 Jun 12, 2007
her sister: Juliette Hughey Pitts and her husband, Henry Lewis Pitts, of Sprott; two brothers: Richard Franklin Hughey of Sprott and Douglas Haig Huey and his wife, Annie Bee Huey, of Sprott; five grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be great-grandsons, Charles E. Graham, III, David Madison Graham Jr., Christopher Wallace Graham, Nathan Allen Graham, Jackson Paul Graham Roland and Joseph Mestayer IV.. (Demopolis Times, AL)
