Key Information
Reference code
HAMILTON, ISM 13/55
Title
Correspondence with Captain Basil Liddell Hart, 1933-1944, chiefly relating to their publications
Date(s)
- 1933 Jan 13 - 1944 Sep 4 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file, 104 letters
Scope and content
Correspondence between Hamilton and Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart, mainly comprising mutual appreciations of each other's publications, and including Hamilton's account, 19 May 1933, of the British Council of War held at 10 Downing Street, London on 5 Aug 1914; typescript review by Liddell Hart of High command in the world war (Scribner's, London, 1934) by Capt William Dilworth Puleston US Navy; letter from Liddell Hart on his recent nervous exhaustion, 25 Oct 1939. With 'We have wasted brains', article by Liddell Hart, Sunday Pictorial, 11 Aug 1940. 1 file, 104 letters