Lions led by donkeys
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"Lions led by donkeys" is a phrase used to imply that a capable group of individuals are incompetently led. Coined in classical antiquity, the phrase was commonly used after World War I to contrast se
Alan Clark, who popularised the phrase
General Erich Ludendorff
Alan Clark
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Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark was a British Conservative Member of Parliament, author and diarist. He served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Tr
Lions led by donkeys
…soldiers (lions) being sent to their deaths by incompetent and indifferent commanders (donkeys). The phrase was implied by English popular historian Alan Clark in the title of his 1961 study of the Western Front of World War I, The Donkeys. Clark's work typified the mainstream historiographical view of World…
Cover page for Alan Clark Diaries