"The publication of Field Marshal Lord Haig's Private Papers has been recognised as making available a document of great historical importance. He is the only great Commander in English History to have kept in his own handwriting a day by day record of events and impressions during the course of his campaign. The extracts from his diary and letters which form nine tenths of this book are presented exactly as Haig wrote them."--Jacket.

First Corps -- First Army -- Loos -- The Dismissal of French -- Commander in Chief -- Plans for the Somme -- The Somme: First Phase -- The Somme: Second Phase -- Plans for 1917 -- The Calais Conference -- The Nivelle Offensive -- Plans for Passchendaele -- Prelude to Passchendaele -- Passchendaele -- Cambrai -- The Fall of Robertson -- The Gathering Storm -- The German Offensive -- THe German Failure -- Victory -- Peace.