No other commander of the first world war has been the subject of so much praise or derision as Field Marshal Earl Haig, the commander of British forces on the western front. Born in Edinburgh in 1861, Douglas Haig was educated at Oxford and Sandhurst before being commissioned in a fashionable cavalry regiment, the 7th Hussars, where he proved to be an energetic and inquiring officer, keen to make his mark. for more click on the introduction
