List of Maps
Introduction
Part I: To War 1914
1: Rupprecht's Road to War
2: The Battle of the Frontiers
3: The End of the Campaign in Lorraine
4: The First Battle of the Somme
5: To Ypres
Part II: The Anvil 1915-16
6: A Difficult Winter
7: A Successful Spring
8: Further Victories
9: Verdun and the Road to the Somme
10: Early Days on the Somme
11: Rupprecht the General
Part III: Holding the Line 1916-17
12: Rupprecht takes Command
13: Autumn on the Somme
14: Scorched Earth
15: The Battle of Arras
16: The Battle for Flanders: Summer 1917
17: The Battle for Flanders: to Passchendaele
18: Cambrai
Part IV: Year of Defeats 1918
19: Planning the Spring Offensives
20: Operation MICHAEL
21: Operation GEORGETTE and Summer 1918
22: The Hundred Days
23: Rupprecht on the Run
Part V: Conclusions
24: Rupprecht the Field Marshal
25: Rupprecht and Politics
26: Last Words
Appendix: Note on Military Terminology
Bibliography
Index
Winner of the British Army Military Book of the Year 2019; Joint winner of the 2018 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize
Jonathan Boff is a Senior Lecturer in History and War Studies at
the University of Birmingham, where he teaches courses on conflict
from Homer to Helmand. He specializes in the First World War and
his previous book, Winning and Losing on the Western Front: The
British Third Army and the Defeat of Germany in 1918 (CUP, 2012)
was short-listed for the Templer Medal and for the British Army
Book of the Year award. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford
and
the Department of War Studies, King's College London and spent
twenty years working in finance before returning to academia. He
serves on the councils of the National Army Museum and Army Records
Society, has
worked as a historical consultant with the British Army and the
BBC, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
`Haig's Enemy helps us to understand how the German army developed
and changed during the war, as well as how it came to lose. Boff
charts an unedifying picture of lessons being learnt and forgotten,
top-down interference from the higher command, as well as the
growing intensity and lethality of the fighting ... [Haig's Enemy]
illustrates the pressures and strains on one man at war, and how he
did his best to mitigate them.'
Nick Lloyd, The Times Literary Supplement
`Using extensive German sources, Boffs scholarly military biography
provides a fascinating insight not only into Rupprechts thinking,
but also in the First World War from the German side. It is a fresh
and unusual take on the war.'
Taylor Downing, Military History Monthly
`This scholarly but lucid and beautifully written account of the
German High Command is essential reading for anyone who wishes to
understand how the fighting on the Western Front developed during
the First World War.'
Professor Sir Michael Howard
`Of all diaries and memoirs written by the senior German officers
of the First World War, that of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria
has long been regarded as the most revealing. Yet Rupprecht himself
has remained elusive, his contribution eclipsed by his more voluble
and histrionic contemporaries. Jonathan Boff has not only brought
him to life (and to an English audience), but done so in a book
that ranges far more widely than a conventional biography.
Readers will gain fresh perspectives on the British and French as
much as they learn about Rupprecht's Bavarians.'
Professor Sir Hew Strachan, University of St Andrews and editor of
Oxfords Great Battles series
`Haig's Enemy is a very welcome addition to the literature. As the
title suggests, Crown Prince Rupprecht was one of the most
significant German commanders to face the British Army across No
Man's Land, but until now we have lacked a biography in English.
What is more, Jonathan Boff has pulled off the rare trick of
writing a book that is both scholarly and very readable - it is a
triumph.'
Gary Sheffield, Professor of War Studies, University of
Wolverhampton
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