Papers of Reginald William Winchester ('Chester') Wilmot (1911-1954)
Reference code: GB99 KCLMA Liddell Hart
Title: WILMOT, Reginald William Winchester ('Chester') Wilmot (1911-1954)
Dates of creation of material: 1942-1957
Level of description: file
Extent:0.28 m3 or 27 boxes
Introduction
- Biographical history (including bibliography)
- Provenance
- Scope and content
- Arrangement
- Conditions of access and use
- Related material
Brief List
- Papers dated 1944-1952 relating to Allied and Axis strategy, diplomacy and economy during World War Two
- Papers dated 1944-1957 relating to Operation OVERLORD and Allied advance through North West Europe, 1943-1945
- Notebooks, 1944-1949, covering the Allied campaign in North West Europe, Jun 1944-May 1945, including notes on operations and interviews and for broadcasts to London
- Allied Army sources, dated 1944-1952, relating to World War Two including Allied campaign, North West Europe, Jun 1944-May 1945
- Assessments, 1942-1951, of and by US and British World War Two political and military leaders, 1939-1945
- Papers, 1944-1956, relating to German political and military policy, 1939-1945
- Reports and notes on interrogations of captured German commanders of World War Two, 1944-1950
- Drafts of 'Great Crusade', published as The Struggle for Europe (Collins, London, 1952), with related correspondence, 1945-1952
- Previous lists of the papers of Reginald William Winchester ('Chester') Wilmot, 1952-1971