The Educated Soldier

[Charles Fair]

Liddell Hart was essentially a self-publicising fraud, who built a career as "the captain who taught generals" on the back of denigrating the British high command of the Great War, whilst lauding the achievements of the Imperial German Army (as he was later to fawn over Hitler's commanders as his 'disciples' after the Second World War). ... however, Liddell Hart was a hypocrite of mammoth proportions, to whose door so many of the myths of the Great War commonly accepted as 'fact' can be traced.

For an in-depth demolition job on LH see "Liddell Hart and the Weight of History" by John J. Mearsheimer

(Pub. Cornell University Press, 1989 ISBN 080142089X, 9780801420894)

[militarycross]

Wondering if someone has a copy of John Terraine's Douglas Haig, The Educated Soldier.

I am looking for two pages of the work, 345 and 370.

It is a reference quoted in Daniel Dancocks, Legacy of Valour, [introduction, page x]

The footnote is related to this sentence in Dancocks' intro: "Heroism was commonplace: in less than two weeks at Passchedaele, Canadians won nine Victoria Crosses, almost as many as won by Canadian soldiers - ten - during the whole of World War II.  Footnote 2.

 

Obviously this is in error, for Canadians were awarded 16, eight posthumously, Just curious as to who said what.

 

Thanks very much.

phil