John Bourne – författare

Featuring over 1,000 alphabetically arranged, biographical entries, Who''s Who in World War One builds up a complete and vivid picture of the major figures of the Great War. The subjects are drawn not only from the political and military spheres of all thirty-two nations involved, but also from the social and cultural life of the period.This book''s breadth of coverage makes it the definitive biographical guide to the First World War;* from the British air ace, Albert Ball, to the German foreign secretary, Richard von Kuhlmann* from David Lloyd George to Rasputin* from the British war poet Siegfried Sassoon to the Serbian assassin Trifko Grabez and the Emperor Wilhelm II.Each entry provides biographical data and basic factual information about its subject''s role in the Great War, and in the case of major figures there is also an assessment of their reputation in the light of current scholarship.Maps, cross-referencing, a list of military ranks, a guide to further reading and a thorough introduction complete what is at once a comprehensive work of reference and a fascinating overview of a crucial period in twentieth century history.

Featuring over 1,000 alphabetically arranged, biographical entries, Who''s Who in World War One builds up a complete and vivid picture of the major figures of the Great War. The subjects are drawn not only from the political and military spheres of all thirty-two nations involved, but also from the social and cultural life of the period.This book''s breadth of coverage makes it the definitive biographical guide to the First World War;* from the British air ace, Albert Ball, to the German foreign secretary, Richard von Kuhlmann* from David Lloyd George to Rasputin* from the British war poet Siegfried Sassoon to the Serbian assassin Trifko Grabez and the Emperor Wilhelm II.Each entry provides biographical data and basic factual information about its subject''s role in the Great War, and in the case of major figures there is also an assessment of their reputation in the light of current scholarship.Maps, cross-referencing, a list of military ranks, a guide to further reading and a thorough introduction complete what is at once a comprehensive work of reference and a fascinating overview of a crucial period in twentieth century history.

There''s a commonly held view that Douglas Haig was a bone-headed, callous butcher, who through his incompetence as commander of the British Army in WWI, killed a generation of young men on the Somme and at Passchendaele. On the other hand, there are those who view Haig as a man who successfully struggled with appalling difficulties to produce an army which took the lead in defeating Germany in 1918.Haig''s diaries, hitherto only previously available in bowdlerised form, give the C-in-C''s view of Asquith and his successor Lloyd George, of whom he was highly critical. The diaries show him intriguing with the King vs. Lloyd George. Additional are his day-by-day accounts of the key battles of the war, not least the Somme campaign of 1916.