Jim Beach

University of Northampton

Dr Jim Beach is a senior lecturer in twentieth century history at the University of Northampton, and the author of Haig’s Intelligence: GHQ and the German Army, 1916–1918.

General Douglas Haig

Intelligence on the Somme

British intelligence systems played an influential role in the conduct of the fighting in 1916.

By Jim Beach

First World War 1914 - 1918