The Donkeys
Book Details
Author(s)
Alan Clark
Publisher
Random House UK
ISBN / ASIN
0712650350
ISBN-13
9780712650359
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Sales Rank
#898,438
Marketplace
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Description
A study of the Western Front in 1915, this book is a stinging indictment of incompetent generalship. The author explores the truth of the observation that British troops were "lions led by donkeys" and shows how appalling losses almost completely destroyed the old professional army.
