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Press release from Antony Bird Publications Ltd announcing the publication of 'Not over by Christmas-NATO's central front in World War III' by E Dinter and P Griffith with forward by FM FM (Richard) Michael (Power) Carver, Baron Carver, Chief of Defence Staff, 1973-1976..

Press orientation-Torrejon air base-Spain. Combat grande. Spanish air force comments'.

Press orientation-Torrejon air base Spain. Combat grande. United States Air Force comments'.

Press orientation-Torrejon air base Spain. "Combat grande". System description and role of COMCO'.

Notices of Liddell Hart's resignation from his post as military correspondent of The Times, in Newspaper World, World's Press News, The Times, The Statesman and Church Times, Oct-Dec 1939. With reviews of Defence of Britain (Faber & Faber, London, 1939) by Liddell Hart in The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Observer and St Louis Post-Dispatch, May-Jul 1940, and Thoughts on war (Faber & Faber, London, 1944) by Liddell Hart in Church Times, Manchester Evening News, World Review, Manchester Guardian, Punch and The Listener, Jun-Aug 1944. Also reviews of books with forewords written by Liddell Hart, including Paratroops (Faber & Faber, London, 1943) by Capt Ferdinand Otto Miksche in various newspapers and journals, including The Times, The Birmingham Post, The Observer, Flight, Yorkshire Post and the Scotsman, Dec 1942-Jun 1943; Marshal de Grouchy and guns of Waterloo (Muller, London, 1942) by Bertram Ratcliffe in The Tribune, The Manchester Evening News, News Review and Cavalcade, Dec 1942-Jan 1943. 1 file

Press notices in various newspapers, including Fortnightly Review, Headway, Picture Post, The Scotsman, The Bookseller, Sunday Chronicle, The Times, Nairobi Standard, Sydney Morning Herald and The New York Times of articles by Liddell Hart in various newspapers, including Headway, Oct 1938, Picture Post, 29 Oct 1938, World Review, Dec 1938 and Yale Review, Dec 1938. 1 file

Press guidance, Congressional staff report: 'SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative): progress and challenges'.

Press Folder for NADGE (NATO Air Defense Ground Environment) including: 'Air tests prove success of NATO's computerised air defence system'; 'NADGE: The story of an air defence system'-background for press; 'Dr Fred P Adler, President, Nadgeco Ltd, biographical information; Diagram 'How NADGE works'; diagram of interlinked radar warning screens across Europe. Also four photographs: 'Inside a NADGE operational control room': 'the "Ares" long distance radar installation'; Anglo-dutch radar for NADGE'; and on Dr Fred P Alder.

Newspaper articles: 'Teng's US visit brings trade links but no arms for China' by James Wightman, Seatle, US and 'Chou's widow saved life of Sihanouk' by Ian Bell, New York

Press cuttings relating to the Berlin crisis, Germany, Sep-Oct 1961 concerning negotiations between Soviets and West, including 'Berlin Showdown,' by Henry Brandon, Sunday Times, 3 Sep 1961; 'Russia warned again "in most solemn terms" no interference with Berlin air corridors,' The Times, 9 Sep 1961 and 'US and British tanks out in Berlin,' The Times, 26 Oct 1961. 1 file

Newspaper and journal cuttings, including reviews of Gallipoli revisited by William Edward Stanton Hope (Stanton Hope, London, 1934), to which Hamilton contributed a foreword; reviews of The Naval Memoirs by AF Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes, Bt (Thornton Butterworth, London, 1934), including 'We could have forced the Dardanelles' by Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, The Daily Mail (2 Oct) and 'Dardanelles could have been won says hero of Zeebrugge', the Daily Express (3 Oct); letter from Hamilton to The Times (16 Oct), praising the physical training department of Col R B Campbell at Edinburgh University. 1 file

Newspaper cuttings relating to OCTAGON, the second Quebec Conference, attended by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, 12-16 Sep 1944, and TOLSTOY, the Moscow Conference, attended by Churchill, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin and (William) Averell Harriman, US Ambassador to the USSR, 9-19 Oct 1944, and Churchill's talks with Brig Gen Charles (André Joseph Marie) de Gaulle, leader of French Provisional Government, in Paris, 11-13 Nov 1944, including discussions on deployment of British forces to join US forces in the Pacific, Sep 1944; agreement on post-war Allied occupation of Germany, Sep 1944; discussions with Stalin on post-war plans for the Balkans, Oct 1944. 1 file

Newspaper cuttings and articles relating to the Cuban missile crisis, Oct 1962, including US imposition of a partial blockade of Cuba, 22 Oct 1962; publication of US military intelligence photographs of missile sites in Cuba, 24 Oct 1962; US imposition of a total blockade of Cuba, 24 Oct 1962; negotiations between U Thant, Secretary-General of the UN, and US and Soviet delegates to the UN on Cuba, 26 Oct 1962; article by Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, entitled 'Can nuclear war be prevented' from New Statesman, 26 Oct 1962; announcement by Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Soviet Prime Minister, for Soviet supply ships to avoid US blockaded area around Cuba, 27 Oct 1962; speculation on US invasion of Cuba, 27 Oct 1962; announcement by Khrushchev of the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba and the dismantling of the launch sites, 28 Oct 1962; article by Karl Ernest Meyer entitled 'Back from the abyss' from New Statesman, 2 Nov 1962. 1 file

Newspaper and journal cuttings, including reviews of Hamilton's When I was a boy (Faber and Faber, London, 1939); '"Tiger" Gort, VC', biographical article by Harold A Albert on John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the Sunday Sun (3 Sep); 'The "immortal essence" of the Gordons', article by 'G S F' on past campaigns of the Gordon Highlanders, Aberdeen Press and Journal (12 Oct); on Hamilton's campaign to enrol South African War veterans into a National Defence Battalion, Aberdeen Press and Journal (24 Oct); 'Roots of war-put hate-mongers in the dock', article by Hamilton accusing propagandists of causing World War Two, The Bulletin and Scots Pictorial (2 Dec). 1 file

Newspaper cuttings relating to the Spanish Civil War, particularly signing of Nyon Agreement in Switzerland, for British, French and Italian naval patrols in Mediterranean Sea; French and British proposals at the Non-Intervention Committee for withdrawal of foreign combatants; removal of Republican government from Valencia to Barcelona; Republican attack on Teruel; consolidation of Nationalist control in northern and western Spain by end 1937, including treatment of prisoners. 1 file

Newspaper and journal cuttings, including review of The Liao-Yang Campaign by Lt Col Alfred Higgins Burne (William Clowes, London, 1936), to which Hamilton contributed a foreword, The Times Literary Supplement (14 Nov); on his speech to the Royal Naval Division dinner, London, 21 Nov, revealing that in Aug 1914, FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, had ordered him to command spy hunting missions in Northern England and Scotland; letter from Hamilton to The Daily Telegraph (30 Nov), supporting the description of Gen Sir John Monash as a former civilian with a talent for military leadership, as given in volume six of War memoirs by Rt Hon David Lloyd George MP (Ivor Nicholson and Watson, London, 1936). 1 file

Newspaper and journal cuttings, including on the ceremonial opening of new barracks for the Gordon Highlanders at Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, 14 Sep; on Hamilton's speech to the Clan Campbell dinner, Glasgow, expressing sympathy for Jews in Germany but urging that German ex-servicemen and citizens should not be censured, 19 Oct; 'Corpse factory: the foulest lie of the Great War', article by F Davis, Manchester City News (9 Nov) on Allied propaganda implying that the German Army was converting human cadavers into raw materials for military use, and containing Hamilton's explanation of how the rumour originated, from Hamilton's introduction to The cross of Carl by Walter Owen (Grant Richards, London, 1931); letter from Hamilton to The Times (7 Dec) suggesting there existed genuine enthusiasm amongst cadets and Officer Training Corps for assisting in the defence of Britain. 1 file

Gloucester Echo, Sunday Times, Western Daily Press, and Birmingham Post concerning the granting of the freedom of Cheltenham to Ismay. 4pp

Newspaper cuttings and articles relating to the Korean War, Sep 1950, including article by US Maj Hal D Steward, US 1 Cavalry Div, entitled 'Korean War observations' from An Cosantóir, the Irish Defence Journal, Sep 1950; retreat of North Korean troops from Pusan perimeter, 14 Sep 1950; UN amphibious landings behind North Korean lines at Inchon, Kunsan, Yongdok, Changsadong and Samchok, 15 Sep 1950; article by James Cameron entitled 'We follow the road to hell' from Picture Post, 16 Sep 1950; recapture of Seoul by US Marines and Republic of Korea troops, 26 Sep 1950; advance of UN troops to 38th parallel of latitude, 30 Sep 1950. 1 file

Newspaper cuttings relating to the SS-compiled list of prominent Britons, to be arrested by German forces following the successful invasion of the UK, compiled 1940 and captured by Allies in 1945. 1 file