Item HAMILTON, ISM 17/47 - Scrapbook of press cuttings, 1925-1929, on the Gallipoli campaign and other topics including East Asia

Scrapbook of newspaper and journal cuttings, including 'The Turkish staff history of the campaign in Gallipoli', article in The Army Quarterly (Jan 1926); 'Dardanelles from the enemy's side', article by Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart, The Daily Telegraph (14 Feb 1926); review by Hamilton of The perils of amateur strategy as exemplified by the attack on the Dardanelles fortress in 1915 by Lt Gen Sir Gerald Francis Ellison (Longmans, New York, 1926), The Observer (20 Jun 1926); reviews of Hamilton's Now and then (Methuen, London, 1926); reviews of Gallipoli Today by T J Pemberton (Ernest Benn, London, 1926), to which Hamilton contributed an introduction; letter from Hamilton to The Times (1 Jan 1927), attributing FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria, with improvements in the standard of musketry in the British Army; 'Britain's lone hand in the Far East', article by Hamilton on the perceived threat to British colonies from Asian powers, The Illustrated Sunday Herald (30 Jan 1927); 'Chinese or Russian-which will be which', article by Hamilton on the growth of Russian influence over China, The Observer (3 Apr 1927); on Hamilton's speech to the Royal Naval Division Officers' Association, describing the great opposition of FM Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Bt, to the Dardanelles Expedition, Nov 1927; reviews of The Uncensored Dardanelles by Ellis Ashmead Bartlett (Hutchinson, London, 1928); 'Kitchener and the Territorials', letter from Hamilton to The Times (11 Sep 1928) on the contribution of FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome to the formation of Territorial units in World War One; Ghosts that haunt me', article by Hamilton on his most vivid military memories, John Bull (10 Nov 1928); 'The Channel Tunnel-what it would have meant in 1914', article by Hamilton published in the provincial press, Feb 1929; reviews of The official history of the Gallipoli campaign, volume 1 by Brig Gen Cecil Faber Aspinall-Oglander (Heinemann, London, 1929). 1 vol