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Papers relating to his life and career, 1942-1957, dated 1942-1971, principally comprising transcriptions and notes from official documents, notes of interviews with military personnel and other papers relating to the military strategy of Allied and Axis powers during World War Two, 1939-1945, notably the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, May-Jun 1940, Battle of Britain, Jul-Sep 1940 and Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945, dated 1944-1952; papers relating to the planning and execution of Operation OVERLORD and the Allied campaign in North West Europe, 1944-1945, dated 1944-1957, including transcriptions and notes from official documents, notes of interviews with military personnel and correspondence; notebooks compiled as a BBC war correspondent, North West Europe, 1944-1945, including details of military operations, information from situation reports, intelligence summaries and army briefings, notes of interviews with military personnel, prisoners and civilians and notes for use in his BBC broadcasts; printed papers issued by Allied forces, 1941-1952, mainly relating to the Allied campaign in North West Europe, 1944-1945, and including SHAEF, 8 Corps and 30 Corps intelligence summaries, 1944-1945, official analyses of operations issued by War Office Directorate of Tactical Investigation, 1943-1947, and illustrated histories of individual army units, [1945-1946]; notes and papers relating to the careers of US and British political and military leaders during World War Two, 1939-1945, dated 1942-1951, including notes, journal articles and scripts of broadcasts by Wilmot and others. Papers relating to German political and military policy during World War Two, 1939-1945 dated 1944-1956, including translations of captured German documents, 1940-1944, made by the Office of US Chief of Counsel for submission as evidence in the Nuremberg war crimes trials, 1945-1946; Canadian Military HQ interrogation reports on captured German officers, 1945-1946; notes by Wilmot and Capt Sir Basil Liddell Hart on their conversations with captured German commanders, 1945-1950; Wilmot's typescript notes on Allied interrogations of captured German commanders, [1945-1946]; papers relating to his book The struggle for Europe (Collins, London, 1952), 1945-1952, notably draft text, [1945-1951], and research correspondence with World War Two Allied commanders and intelligence officers, 1946-1951.