Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig - Public domain book illustration

Identifier: peopleswarbookhi00mill (find matches)
Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, J. Martin (James Martin), b. 1859 Canfield, Harry S. (from old catalog), joint author Plewman, William Rothwell, 1880- (from old catalog) Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929 Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945 United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The R.C. Barnum co. Detroit, Mich., The F.B. Dickerson co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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Llovd George. Great Britains foremost Statesman and War Lord.
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SIR DOUGLAS HAIG, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE BRITISH FORCES IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM. Canada*s Part in the War CHAPTER III. THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1916 AND 1917. ST. ELOI — FIGHTING IN THE YPRES SALIENT —GEN. HAIG PAYSTRIBUTE TO CANADIANS — HILL 60 — BATTLE OF THE SOMME —GER-MANS RETIRE TO HINDENBURG LINE —VIMY RIDGE —GEN. CURRIEPLACED IN COMMAND —HILL 70. The simultaneous allied offen.sives onSeptember 25th, 1915, at Loos and Taliure(Artois and Champagne) warned Germanythat she needed her striking force in thewestern arena in 1916 to cope with the in-creasing power of Britain and France.The decision of her high command was tostrike first, and in mid-February a greatattack was begun in the Verdun region.To meet that effort, French troops werereleased from sixteen miles of front ex-tending northward from the Somme rivertowards Arras, and British troops substi-tuted. And while the allies spent monthsin warding off the Verdun attack and inpreparing a drive of their own up theSomme