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Correspondence and papers relating to Thompson's books, including correspondence with Maj Gen Douglas Neil Wimberley relating to The Montgomery Legend Part 1 (Allen & Unwin, London, 1967), Maj Gen John Frederick Charles Fuller; Professor Norman Henry Gibbs; FM Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, Brig Henry Beveridge Latham, John Henry Robertson Connell, Gen Sir Bernard Charles Toiver Paget. With press cuttings featuring comment by Liddell Hart on FM Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig; Berlin and the division between East and West Germany, 1961; US foreign policy 1966-1967 with regard to Vietnam; FM Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell of Cyrenaica and Winchester. 1 file

Correspondence between E E Thomas of the Cabinet Office Historical Section (researching the Official history of British Intelligence in the Second World War, HMSO, London, 1981) and Davidson relating to the role of the Director of Military Intelligence, the Joint Intelligence Committee and other aspects of Intelligence during World War Two. 1 file

Correspondence between Bridgeman and Martin Alexander, a second year research student at St Anthony's College, Oxford writing a thesis entitled 'The Maginot Line and the defence of France in British and French strategy in the 1930s'. Includes Alexander's questions and Bridgeman's replies on Franco-British military relations in 1939-1940, when Bridgeman was General Staff Officer Grade 1 at the Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force, and a copy of a paper by Alexander comparing the pre-war mechanisation in the French and British armies.

File of demi-official correspondence written by and to Kiggell in his capacity as Chief of General Staff, British Armies in France, mainly routine letters concerning staff appointments, unofficial discussions with politicians and army commanders concerning operations, supplies, training, movement of troops and artillery, notably correspondence with Gen Sir William (Robert) Robertson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff; Maj Gen William Bernard Hickie, General Officer Commanding 16 (Irish) Div; Maj Gen Sir Stanley Brenton Von Donop, Master General of the Ordnance; Gen Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, General Officer Commanding 3 Army; Gen Sir Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, Commander 2 Army; Lt Gen Sir William Riddell Birdwood, General Officer Commanding 1 ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps); Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher; V Adm Sir Reginald (Hugh Spencer) Bacon, Commander Dover Patrols; Gen Sir Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 2nd Bt, General Officer Commanding 4 Army; the Rt Hon David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister; Maj Gen Richard Harte Keatinge Butler, Deputy Chief of General Staff; Maj Gen Sir Charles Edward Callwell, advisor to the Ministry of Munitions; Maj Gen Sir David Henderson, Director General of Military Aeronautics; Lt Gen Sir Francis John Davies, Military Secretary, War Office; Maj Gen Charles Tyrwhitt Dawkins, Assistant Quartermaster General, British General Headquarters; Lt Gen Sir Richard Cyril Byrne Haking, General Officer Commanding 6 Corps; Lt Gen Sir Robert Dundas Whigham, Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff; Lt Gen Sir Henry Sinclair Horne, General Officer Commanding 1 Army; Lt Gen Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough, General Officer Commanding 5 Army; Maj Gen Philip (Arthur Manley) Nash, Director General of Transportation, Western Front; Brig Gen John Humphrey Davidson, Director of Military Operations, British General Headquarters; Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, Secretary of State for War; Lt Gen Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, Chief of British Mission to the French army; Maj Gen Frederick (Barton) Maurice, Director of Military Operations, Imperial General Staff; the Rt Hon Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, Inspector General of Transportation, all theatres of war. 132 items, 210pp.