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    Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front
    Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front
    Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front
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    Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front

    Written by Jonathan Boff

    Narrated by Julian Elfer

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    During the First World War, the British army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the Imperial German Army, he held off the attacks of the British Expeditionary Force under Sir John French and then Sir Douglas Haig for four long years. But Rupprecht was to lose not only the war, but his son and his throne.

    In Haig's Enemy, Jonathan Boff explores the tragic tale of Rupprecht's war-the story of a man caught under the wheels of modern industrial warfare. Providing a fresh viewpoint on the history of the Western Front, Boff draws on extensive research in the German archives to offer a history of the First World War from the other side of the barbed wire. He revises conventional explanations of why the Germans lost with an in-depth analysis of the nature of command, and of the institutional development of the British, French, and German armies as modern warfare was born. Using Rupprecht's own diaries and letters, many of them never before published, Haig's Enemy views the Great War through the eyes of one of Germany's leading generals, shedding new light on many of the controversies of the Western Front.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateDec 25, 2018
    ISBN9781977332660
    Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front
    Author

    Jonathan Boff

    Dr Jonathan Boff FRHistS is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Birmingham, where he teaches courses relating to war from Homer to Helmand. He specializes in particular in World War I. His publications include Winning and Losing on the Western Front: The British Third Army and the Defeat of Germany in 1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front (Oxford University Press, 2018). He has undertaken consultancy projects for the British Army and the BBC and serves on the Councils of the National Army Museum and the Army Records Society.

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      The author’s analysis of German and Allied situations is superb. He is a really astute historian - highly recommended.