The Donkeys - Softcover

Clark, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712650350 ISBN 13: 9780712650359

Verlag: Pimlico, 1991

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Book by Clark Alan

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"A shell-burst of a book" (The Economist)

"An eloquent and painful book... Clark leaves the impression that vanity and stupidity were the main ingredients of the massacres of 1915. He writes searingly and unforgettably" (George Malcolm Thomson Evening Standard)

"Mr Clark writes with verve, venom and real feeling for the men whose lives the brasshats squandered" (Paul Johnson New Statesman)

"So far from being "just another war book" that it is likely to be bought and read for years to come" (Vernon Fane Sphere)

"He is a writer with considerable gifts both of description and narrative. His subject gives them plenty of scope; indeed his descriptions of battles and battlefields are sometimes masterly" (Michael Howard Listener)

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The landmark exposé of incompetent leadership on the Western Front - why the British troops were lions led by donkeys

On 26 September 1915, twelve British battalions – a strength of almost 10,000 men – were ordered to attack German positions in France. In the three-and-a-half hours of the battle, they sustained 8,246 casualties. The Germans suffered no casualties at all.

Why did the British Army fail so spectacularly? What can be said of the leadership of generals? And most importantly, could it have all been prevented? In The Donkeys, eminent military historian Alan Clark scrutinises the major battles of that fateful year and casts a steady and revealing light on those in High Command - French, Rawlinson, Watson and Haig among them - whose orders resulted in the virtual destruction of the old professional British Army. Clark paints a vivid and convincing picture of how brave soldiers, the lions, were essentially sent to their deaths by incompetent and indifferent officers – the donkeys.

‘An eloquent and painful book... Clark leaves the impression that vanity and stupidity were the main ingredients of the massacres of 1915. He writes searingly and unforgettably’ Evening Standard

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• Verlag: Pimlico
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0712650350
• ISBN 13: 9780712650359
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240