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LIDDELL HART: 9/13/1-10 - Papers, 1929-1965, relating to 'T E Lawrence' - in Arabia and after (London, Cape, 1934, New York, Dodd, Mead, 1934, enlarged edition, 1935)

LIDDELL HART: 9/13/11-17 - Papers, 1937-1963, relating to T E Lawrence to his biographers: Robert Graves and Liddell Hart (limited edition, 1938, London, Cassell, 1963)

LIDDELL HART: 9/13/18-78 - Papers, 1907-1973, relating to T E Lawrence

LIDDELL HART: 9/24/1-18 - Papers, 1912-1973, relating to The other side of the hill (London, Cassell, 1948), including background research material

LIDDELL HART: 9/24/19-36 - Papers, [1933]-1977, relating to The Rommel papers, edited by Liddell Hart (London, Collins, 1953)

LIDDELL HART: 9/24/37-47 - Papers, 1950-1968, relating to Panzer leader, by Heinz Guderian (London, Michael Joseph, 1952), originally Erinnerungen eines soldaten (Heidelberg, Kurt Vowinckel Verlag, 1950)

LIDDELL HART: 9/24/48-89 - Correspondence with German people (notably World War Two German generals) with related papers, 1932-1974 (some correspondence continued by Kathleen Liddell Hart after Basil Liddell Hart's death in 1970)

LIDDELL HART: 9/24/90-154 - Papers, 1942-1966, relating to talks with German generals, including official interrogation transcripts

LIDDELL HART: 9/24/155-202 - Papers, 1944-1973, relating to German war crimes trials after World War Two

LIDDELL HART: 9/24/203-332 - Collected background information on Germany, 1912-1969

LIDDELL HART: 9/28/1-35 - Papers, 1941-1966, relating to The tanks: the history of the Royal Tank Regiment (London, Cassell, 1959)

LIDDELL HART: 9/28/36-56 - Correspondence, 1919-1977, with Royal Tank Regiment friends (some continued by Kathleen Liddell Hart after Basil Liddell Hart's death in 1970)

LIDDELL HART: 9/28/58-103 - Collected papers about tanks, 1914-1970, including correspondence with tank pioneers

LIDDELL HART: 9/28/104-120 - Papers, 1915-1966, relating chiefly to Lieutenant Colonel Philip Johnson and the development of the Medium D tank, catalogued by Richard Marian Ogorkiewicz

Papers of Brig George Fothergill Ellenberger, 1916-1932, including operational orders for 64 Infantry Bde, 21 Div, Western Front, May 1916-Nov 1917, including assault on Flers-Courcelette, Battle of the Somme, Sep 1916, Battle of Arras, Apr 1917, and Third Battle of Ypres, Oct 1917; facsimile of report by Ellenberger and Maj William Wyndham Torrs Torr, West Yorkshire Regiment, on a reconnaissance of eastern Belgium and Luxembourg, 1930; two facsimiles of reports by Ellenberger on military liaison tours to Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Austria, 1930-1931; facsimile of report by Ellenberger on the political situation in Austria and Hungary, 1931; facsimile of report by Ellenberger on the growth of National Socialism in Austria, 1932.

Papers, 1916-1948, mainly relating to the life and career of Maj Gen George Mackintosh Lindsay, notably his service as Chief Instructor, Royal Tank Corps Central Schools, Bovington, Dorset, 1923- 1925, Inspector, Royal Tank Corps, War Office, 1925-1929, and Commander of 7 (Mechanised Experimental) Infantry Bde, Southern Command, 1932-1934. From the 1920s and 1930s there is a rich series of correspondence with Col Charles Noel Frank Broad, Lt Col Frederick Elliot Hotblack, Brig Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart and Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart, all of whom were leading figures in the development of British armoured forces, the mechanisation of the Army, tank design and improvements to military training. The series includes original notes and memoranda by both Lindsay and his correspondents. Lindsay's correspondence with Gen Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, 1935-1944, covers armoured tactics, the mechanisation of cavalry and Wavell's visit to the USSR to observe Red Army manoeuvres, Sep 1936. Papers on Lindsay's appointment as Brigadier General Staff, Egypt Command, 1929-1932, include memoranda by Gen Sir George Francis Milne, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and Maj Gen Sydney Capel Peck on the future organisation of mechanised units in Egypt. Notable photographs in the collection include a series on Lt Col Giffard Le Quesne Martel's 'mechanical coffin' one man armoured carrier, 1934.

Papers relating to Maj Gen Sir Percy Hobart's life and career, 1926-1953, including typescript texts of five lectures by Hobart on tank warfare, Staff College, Quetta, India, 1926. Papers relating to Hobart's command of 1 Tank Bde, Southern Command, 1934-1937, including typescript memoranda on training and development of armoured forces, 1935-1936; letter from Gen Sir (William) Edmund Ironside, Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Command, on Royal Tank Corps recruitment, 1936. Papers relating to Hobart's service as Deputy Director of Staff Duties (Armoured Fighting Vehicles), War Office, 1937, including typescript notes and memoranda on the organisation and deployment of armoured units and on mechanisation in the British Army, with notes on tactics by Gen Sir John (Theodosius) Burnett-Stuart, General Officer Commanding in Chief, Southern Command, 1937. Papers relating to the Armoured Div, Egypt (later renamed 7 Armoured Div), Western Desert, 1939-1942, including typescript training report by Hobart entitled 'The Armoured Division, Egypt', May 1939; typescript and manuscript reports, accounts and correspondence relating to Operation BATTLEAXE, Libya, Jun 1941, including letter to Hobart from Brig Charles (Frederic) Keightley, commanding 30 Armoured Bde, on the necessity for a 6 pounder gun, Dec 1941; typescript account of 7 Armoured Div operations in Libya by Maj Gen William Henry Ewart Gott, General Officer Commanding, 1942. Papers relating to Hobart's command of 79 (Specialised) Armoured Div, North West Europe, 1944-1945, including typescript 79 Armoured Div operational bulletins on Operation OVERLORD, the Allied invasion of German occupied France, and the Normandy campaign, Jun-Aug 1944; bound printed edition of 'Final Report, 79 Armoured Division', published by 21 Army Group, with accounts on Operation OVERLORD, the Allied invasion of German occupied Europe, Jun 1944; Operations VITALITY and INFATUATE, the battle for the Scheldt Estuary, Sep-Nov 1944 and Operation PLUNDER, the Rhine Crossing, Mar 1945. Correspondence with Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart, 1942-1944.

Papers relating to his life and career 1918-1968, and to the life and career of FM (William) Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside of Archangel and of Ironside, 1902-1959, principally comprising correspondence with Ironside, 1921-1959, including copies of reports on Ironside by senior officers, 1919-1934, and copies of reports on Macleod, 1918-1939; memoirs entitled 'An artillery officer in the First World War', including accounts of Curragh incident, Mar 1914, the retreat from Mons, Aug 1914, the Western Front, 1914-1917 and the Asiago Plateau, Italy, 1918, [1965]; an account by Macleod on Lt (William) Edmund Ironside's service in South Africa, German South West Africa and British Bechuanaland, 1902-1904, entitled 'A Secret Service agent in South West Africa', [1965]; typescript text of lecture on the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), dated 1968.