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...Among his greatest misjudgments was his unwavering support for Field Marshal Douglas Haig, the commander of the forces on the western front, despite his strategy proving an ineffective waste of life....
...“If the mine comes it will be fantastic for Whitehaven,” said Andrew McDowell, a newsagent....
...One very damp hour to the south in Eden Mill’s distillery, just outside St Andrews, I watch rain trickle through the roof before making a long drop in to a red bucket....
...David Haig gives Nathan a mix of twinkly mischief and slippery wheedling charm, but could bring more weary desperation to a guy who spends his life dodging between the heavy arm of the law and the lawbreaking...
...The Suicide Club is a satisfying first world war espionage adventure set in Field Marshal Haig’s HQ in France....
...In When the Whistle Blows (2011), a history of the Footballers’ Battalion by Andrew Riddoch and John Kemp, the battalion’s commanding officer Colonel Henry Fenwick is quoted as saying of his men in battle...
...Andrew Barrow follows in this tradition. He did a marvellous book of words overheard in pubs called Small Talk....
...It was a psychological feature that gripped Generals Hindenberg and Ludendorff (and occasionally Field Marshal Haig) in the first world war, and the German and Japanese general staffs in the second world...
...Haig Simonian is the FT’s Switzerland correspondent …………………………………………………………….....
...“Clearly the board is somewhat nervous about the global economic and financial environment, but it is perhaps also aware of some strategic options for using cash through M&A,” noted Andrew Wood of Sanford...
...Gate said it had appointed Andrew Gibson, head of North America, as interim chief executive. Mr Gibson is a former McKinsey consultant who has been with Gategroup since 2004....
...Any concerns that Nestlé’s strong momentum from the first half would subside have been shown to be unfounded,” said Andrew Wood, analyst at Sanford C Bernstein....
...Additional reporting by Andrew Jack in London...
...“Overall, we consider this reporting to be good, with strong and balanced operating performance across the board,” said Andrew Wood, sector analyst at Sanford C Bernstein, in a note to investors....
...Reporting by Quentin Peel in Berlin, Stanley Pignal in Brussels, Chris Bryant in Vienna, Haig Simonian in Zurich and Andrew Bolger in Edinburgh...
...Additional reporting by Haig Simonian in Zurich...
...Alexander Haig 33. Eugene Terre’Blanche 34. Norman Wisdom 35. Tony Curtis (Some Like It Hot)...
...For many he was Mao’s enabler; in the words of the China scholar Andrew Nathan, “unique in his capacity to endure abasement”....
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