02142nam a22003378a 4500 CR9781139600521 UkCbUP 20180107143410.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 121116s2013||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139600521 (ebook) 9781107039612 (hardback) 9781107519275 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda D639.S7 B33 2013 940.4/85641 23 Beach, Jim, author. Haig's Intelligence : GHQ and the German Army, 1916–1918 / [electronic resource] Jim Beach. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (386 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Cambridge Military Histories Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Haig's Intelligence is an important study of Douglas Haig's controversial command during the First World War. Based on extensive new research, it addresses a perennial question about the British army on the Western Front between 1916 and 1918: why did they think they were winning? Jim Beach reveals how the British perceived the German army through a study of the development of the British intelligence system, its personnel and the ways in which intelligence was gathered. He also examines how intelligence shaped strategy and operations by exploring the influence of intelligence in creating perceptions of the enemy. He shows for the first time exactly what the British knew about their opponent, when and how and, in so doing, sheds significant new light on continuing controversies about the British army's conduct of operations in France and Belgium and the relationship between Haig and his chief intelligence officer, John Charteris. Print version: 9781107039612 Cambridge Military Histories. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139600521 Cambridge Books Online 236388 236388