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Copy extracts made in the 1960s from correspondence with people including Major General Sir George Aston, Sir Winston Churchill and Field Marshal William Ironside

Manuscript and typescript extracts from correspondence, arranged alphabetically by correspondent, including with Maj Gen Sir George (Grey) Aston, 1924-1938; Sir Christopher Bullock, 1928-1959; Rt Hon Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, 1924-1955; Maj Gen John Frederick Charles Fuller, 1920-1937; FM William Edmund Ironside, 1926-1939; Lt Gen Sir Giffard le Quesne Martel, 1925-1959. These extracts are taken from correspondence files, Section 1/1-780. 1 file

Copy extracts, [1930-1940], from books about the Western Front, World War One

Extracts from books relating mainly to Western Front campaigns, 1914-1918, particularly pre-war army reforms and naval expansion; political situation in Britain and relations between and opinions of political and military leaders especially FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, FM Sir Douglas Haig, Rt Hon David Lloyd George, Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill and Rt Hon Herbert Henry Asquith; trench warfare; troop morale and discipline; attitudes to the number of casualties produced by the offensive strategy of leading generals, including There's a Devil in the Drum by John F Lucy (Faber and Faber, London, 1938), Haldane 1865-1915 by Maj Gen Sir Frederick (Barton) Maurice (Faber and Faber, London, 1937) and The Anvil of War, letters between F S Oliver and his brother edited by Stephen Lucius Gwynn (Macmillan and Co, London, 1936). 1 file

Copy extracts, [1945-1952], from despatches on Allied operations in North West Europe and USSR Army operations on the Eastern Front, Jun-Sep 1944

Extracts of dispatches [to London] describing the progress of Allied forces in North West Europe and Red Army in Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 6 Jun-29 Sep 1944; extracts of reports in The Times on the Normandy invasion, total German war casualties and British counter-radar measures. 1 file

Copy extracts, [1965], from letters by Field Marshal Lord Ironside to Macleod, written 1931-1959

Unpublished volume containing extracts of letters from FM Sir (William) Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron of Archangel and Ironside, to Macleod, 1931-1959, linked by narrative and biographical material provided by Macleod, notably Ironside's descriptions of German army manoevres, Sep 1937, including a meeting with Hitler and an account of the final march in Berlin, Germany; his appointment as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Sep 1939; the opening stages of World War Two, and his dealings with, and assessment of the character of, the Rt Hon Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War; British involvement in the Finnish-Russian War, Nov 1939-Mar 1940; reflections on the lessons learnt during the early campaigns of World War Two; views on the future of the British army, written in 1955; the writing of a book by Macleod on the early stages of World War Two, using Ironside's diaries as a reference, 1957; the death of Ironside, 1959. Appendices include confidential reports made upon Ironside while serving as Maj Gen, Lt Gen and Gen; letters from the Rt Hon Neville Chamberlain, the Rt Hon Robert Anthony Eden, the Rt Hon Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill and William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, on Ironside's vacating of the post of Commander in Chief Home Forces; a letter from Macleod to Gen Sir Ian Jacob concerning inaccuracies in the radio programme Dunkirk, broadcast on 8 Jun 1958. Includes several passages which were removed from the copy of this volume sent by Macleod to Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart, and kept within the latter's papers at the Centre (Ref: LH 15/14/9). 1 vol.

Copy extracts, [1969]-1970, from the US Army CID report on evidence relating to the massacre at My Lai (Son My)

Criminal investigation by US Army CID - Summaries of evidence'. Photocopies of sections from the US Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) report on evidence gathered concerning the allegations of atrocities committed by US Army personnel at My Lai, Vietnam, [1969], and copy of the investigators statement 20 Jul 1970.

Copy extracts, 1977 and 1984-1986, from publications on US Army operations in Viet Nam

Miscellaneous papers'. Includes photocopies of photograph of topographical model of the My Lai area, and extracts from publications relating to the US Army operations in Vietnam, including Bureaucracy at War, US performance in the Vietnam conflict, Robert W Kome, Westview Press, Boulder Colorado, (1986); Vietnam War Almanac, Harry G Summers Jr, Facts on File, New York, (1985); On strategy, A critical analysis of the Vietnam war, Harry G Summers, (Novato, California, 1985); The lessons of Vietnam, W Scott Thompson and Donaldson D Frizzell (eds), Crane, Russak and Company, New York, (1977). Also contains photocopies of extracts of catalogues to archives containing collections relating to the Vietnam War, and Researching the Vietnam experience, Ronald H Spector, Analysis Branch, US Army Centre of Military History, Washington DC (1984).

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