Liddell Hart 9 Military writings; books, 1925-1970

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Liddell Hart 9 Military writings; books, 1925-1970

LIDDELL: 9/14 Papers relating to The war in outline by Liddell Hart (Faber; Random House, 1936)

LIDDELL: 9/14/1 [1936]

Manuscript of The war in outline by Liddell Hart.

LIDDELL: 9/14/2 [1936]

Typescript of The war in outline by Liddell Hart, with manuscript annotations.

LIDDELL: 9/14/3-5 [1936]

Page proofs of The war in outline by Liddell Hart, with manuscript corrections.

LIDDELL: 9/14/6-7 [1936]

Notes by Liddell Hart containing extracts and references from his book The war in outline.

LIDDELL: 9/14/8 1936-1965

Correspondence and notes relating to The war in outline by Liddell Hart, including 'Introduction' to book by George Fielding Eliot in typescript; correspondence with Eliot (1965), US Lt Col Donald Armstrong, Jacqueline Korn; also notes by Liddell Hart for footnote and 'possible insertion' for book; and journal cutting, 'Reviewers criticised', a letter by Liddell Hart to editor of Time and Tide, 19 Sep 1936 with editor's reply.

LIDDELL: 9/14/9 1936-1937

Correspondence and press reviews of The war in outline by Liddell Hart; correspondence including the editor of The Quarterly Review; US Lt Col Donald Armstrong; and Lt Col Roderick (Rory) Macleod; also 'A qualified Eastener' letter by Liddell Hart to editor of The Spectator, 11 Sep 1936; reviews include 'Englands krigsvinster' by [Swedish] Col Heming Stålhane (in Swedish) Nya Dagligt Allehanda, 29 Jun 1936 partly translated in typescript as 'England's profits of war'; 'Englands militära läge' (in Swedish) from Dagens Nyheter, 14 Nov 1936 translated in typescript; review by Maj Gen James Handyside Marshall-Cornwall in International Affairs [1936-1937] (in typescript); a review by Lt Gen Sir George Fletcher MacMunn in English Review, Oct 1936; and 'War need is for brains as well as bullets' by Brig Gen Frank Percy Crozier Reynolds News, 19 Jul 1936. See also LH9/32/16, pp 42-105.

LIDDELL: 9/14/10-11 1947

Bound, broken copy of The war in outline by Liddell Hart, annotated, 'as cut down for article on World War One in Nelson's encyclopaedia (USA), 1947'; and typescript of article, including traced maps of World War One battle sites.