Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1998-2010 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
2 boxes of papers, 1 MP3 audio file (totalling 86.7MB)
Scope and content
Papers, 1998-2010, relating to the life and death of Ashraf Marwan (1944-2007), Egyptian businessman and alleged spy, including:
copy letters from Ahron Bregman to Marwan, and notes on their conversations, 2002-2007
copies of Bregman’s witness statements and related correspondence, 2007-2008, detailing his contact with Marwan, 2002-2007
press reports, photocopy extracts from publications and other background information on Marwan, 1998-2011, including his alleged espionage and business activities, his death and the subsequent inquest, chiefly in English and Hebrew
Also two audio recordings of Israeli pilots’ radio conversation during an air attack on USS LIBERTY, 8 Jun 1967, off the coast of the Sinai peninsula, used by Dr Bregman in Israel’s wars: a history since 1947.
System of arrangement
Dr Bregman’s original arrangement has been retained
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1958
served in Israeli Army, 1976-1982, Litani campaign, South Lebanon, 1978
Lebanon War, 1982
Major (Reserve) 1982-
parliamentary assistant, Knesset, Israel, 1985-1988
PhD, Department of War Studies, King’s College London, 1994
consultant and associate producer for BBC television documentary series, The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs, 1998, and Elusive peace: Israel and the Arabs, 2005
Teaching Fellow, Department of War Studies, 2003-
Publications: with Jihan El-Tahri, The fifty years war: Israel and the Arabs (Penguin, London, 1998); Israel’s wars: a history since 1947 (Routledge, London, 2000); A history of Israel (Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2000); Elusive peace: how the Holy Land defeated America (Penguin, London, 2005); editor, Warfare in the Middle East since 1945 (Ashgate, Farnham, 2008); Occupation: Israel and the occupied territories since 1967 (Penguin, London, 2012)
Repository
Custodial history
The collection was placed in the Centre by Dr Bregman in 2011
Conditions governing access
Some material is CLOSED but most of the collection is open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
- Hebrew
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
Place access points
People and Organisations
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.