
Alan Clark was an English Conservative MP, historian and diarist. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
by Alan Clark
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.