Summary Guide

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3.1 IDENTITY STATEMENT

3.1.1 Reference code: GB99 KCLMA MISC 15

3.1.2 Title: Copies of articles relating to Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart in Maarachot

3.1.3 Dates of creation of material: 1939-1971

3.1.4 Level of description: collection level

3.1.5 Extent: 1 file

3.2 CONTEXT

3.2.1 Name of creator: Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart and

3.2.2 Administrative history: In Sept 1939, the Haganah, the clandestine Jewish military force in Palestine, began to publish its Hebrew military journal, Maarachot. With Israeli independence in 1948 the journal eventually became recognised and authoritative vehicle for the transmission of military theory. In its first issue, Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart wrote an article entitled, ‘Rapid Training of Recruits’, thus marking the start of an intellectual relationship that lasted until Liddell Hart’s death in 1970.

3.2.5 Provenance/source of acquisition: Copies of articles presented to the Centre in 1981 by the Director, Israel Defence Force and Defence Establishment Archives, Ministry of Defence, Israel.

3.3 CONTENT AND STRUCTURE

3.3.1 Scope and content: Copies of articles, in Hebrew, from the military journal Maarachot relating to Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart’s theories of military strategy and tactics, including ‘Rapid Training of Recruits’, by Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart, Sep 1939; three commemorative articles, in Hebrew, written after Liddell Hart’s death, Mar-Jun 1971; review of Liddell Hart’s History of the Second World War by Col Dr Yehuda Wallech, 1971.

3.4 CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE

3.4.2 Access: Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

3.4.3 Copyright: Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the College Archivist.

3.4.4 Language: Hebrew

3.4.6 Finding aids: Summary guide entry on-line and available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

3.6 NOTE AREA

3.6.1 Date of compilation: Oct 1999

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