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(London: Butterworth, 1928, 1932; reprint, London: Archon Books, 1968), espe-
cially 494–533. For a more recent critique of the rise of the War Cabinet, see John
Turner,British Politics and the Great War: Coalition and Conflict, 1915–1918(New Haven,
CT: Yale University Press, 1992), 142–8. See also John Turner, ‘Cabinets, Commit-
tees and Secretariats: The Higher Direction of the War,’ in Kathleen Burk, ed.,War
and the State: The Transformation of British Government, 1914–1918(London: George Allen &
Unwin, 1982).



  1. David French,The Strategy of the Lloyd George Coalition, 1916–1918(Oxford: Clarendon Press,
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  2. French,Lloyd George Coalition, 110–12.

  3. Ibid., 6–9.

  4. Wilson,Myriad Faces of War, 439–40.

  5. Ibid.; French,Lloyd George Coalition, 290;Guin, British Strategy and Politics, 207; Woodward,
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  6. Haig,Private Papers, 20.

  7. Guin,British Strategy and Politics, 201; Haig,Private Papers, 208–9. ‘Wigram’ is Sir Clive
    Wigram, Privy Secretary to King George V.

  8. John Turner, ‘British Politics and the Great War,’ in John Turner, ed.,Britain and the
    First World War(London: Unwin & Hyman, 1988), 128; Woodward,Lloyd George and the
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  9. Harvey A. DeWeerd, ‘Churchill, Lloyd George, Clemenceau: The Emergence of the
    Civilians,’in Makers of Modern Strategy: Military Thought from Machiavelli to Hitler, Edward Meade
    Earle, ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1943), 298–300.

  10. French,Lloyd George Coalition, 58–9; Guin,British Strategy and Politics, 200–1.

  11. Woodward,Lloyd George and the Generals, 232, 245–7.

  12. Turner, Coalition and Conflict, 158, 162.

  13. Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson,Passchendaele: The Untold Story(New Haven, CT: Yale
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  14. Gerard de Groot,Douglas Haig, 1861–1928(London: Unwin & Hyman,1988), 312;
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  15. Prior and Wilson,Command on the Western Front, 266–7; John Terraine,The Road to
    Passchendaele: The Flanders Offensive of 1917, A Study in Inevitability(London: Leo Cooper, 1977),
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  16. Stephen Badsey, ‘Cavalry and the Development of Breakthrough Doctrine,’ in Griffith,
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    Offensive of 1917,’ in Brian Bond, ed., Fallen Stars:Eleven Studies of Twentieth Century Military
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  17. Paddy Griffith,Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Army’s Art of the Attack, 1916–18
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  18. Clayton, ‘Robert Nivelle,’ 59.

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