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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) publication: 'Nuclear disarmament or nuclear war?'.

Stock sheet. Ordnance Stores. M 16

Stillborn peace, the mandate of Elias Sarkis (1976-1982), Karim Pakradouni, Translated by Robert Holloway, Fiches du Monde Arab, Beirut, 1985. 276pp

Stewart Richardson: correspondence with Liddell Hart

Papers relating to his service in the Indian Army, dated [1941], 1942, [1944], 1947, 1962-1964, 1970, 1973, 1984, principally comprising photographs of convoys at Sarwekai on the route between Mangai and Wana, South Wazaristan, India, [1941]; operation instructions for 50 Parachute Bde exercise in Tughlakabad area, India, Mar 1942; 'Some notes on Gurkhas', typescript text by Stevenson-Hamilton, 1943; typescript account of the service of 4 Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles, India, 1943-1944, written by Stevenson-Hamilton in [1944]; typescript account of the service of 2 Bn, 4 Prince of Wales' Own Gurkha Rifles, Italy, 1944, written by [Stevenson-Hamilton] in [1944]; unsigned official notes on a tour of Arakan by 98 Indian Infantry Bde, Burma, 1944; 71 Indian Infantry Bde instructions for operations in Maungdaw, Burma, Apr 1944; typescript text on Gurkha operations in Wazaristan and the Punjab, India, 1947, and on the proposed transfer of Gurkha regiments to the British Army, 1947; notebook containing notes on misdemeanours and crimes committed by soldiers at Garlochhead Training Camp, Helensburgh, 1962-1964.

Papers and photographs, 1913-1958, including fourteen panoramic photographs produced by Survey Company, Royal Engineers, Salonika Force, labelled to show topographical details, Feb 1917; 'Salonika fire', 18-19 Aug 1917, a series of 24 official photographs of the city, taken by Survey Company, Royal Engineers and Royal Flying Corps; two photographs, one of a uniformed group including Stevenson, [1946], and the other of an unidentified painting showing construction work on an airfield [1940]. Papers relating to the evacuation of Royal Engineers establishments in Beit-Nabala and Haifa, Palestine, 1948. Editions of Notes on building materials and their uses (School of Military Engineering, Chatham, 1913); 'RMA (Royal Military Academy) Magazine', Vol XV, No 58, Nov 1914.

Stevenson Pugh: correspondence with Liddell Hart

Comprising a single volume of typescript letters by George Archibald Stevens to his parents from the Western Front, Nov 1914 - Nov 1918; notably including accounts of Second Battle of Ypres, Apr-May 1915, and Battle of the Somme, Jul-Nov 1916; photographs of Stevens, a group photograph of fellow officers, family, billet, bombed countryside and one unidentified aerial photograph; mostly uncaptioned.

Unpublished typescript memoirs, 1893-1969, including: accounts of life in the British colony in St Petersburg before World War One; work in the British Military Mission at the Russian War Office; events witnessed during the Russian Revolution and conditions for the Russian Army during the Revolution, 1917-1918; evacuation of British personnel from Russia, February 1918; negotiating with Finnish Red and White commanders while travelling through Finland during the Civil War; liaising with Admiral Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Kolchak and the White armies in Harbin, China, 1918; liaising with General Mikhail Konstantinovich Dieterichs, Czechoslovak Legions, and a special mission to Ataman Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov (or Semenov) in Chita, Transbaikalia, November 1918; activities as General Sir Harry Knox's liaison officer at the White Army Headquarters in Omsk, November 1918 - November 1919; the retreat from Omsk to Vladivostock following the success of the Bolshevik army, November 1919 - March 1920; stationing in Gibraltar and Egypt, 1921-1922; life and work in Simla, Waziristan and Kamptee, India, 1922-1928; work as an intelligence officer, Meshed, Persia (Iran), 1928-1931; life and work in Bombay, Ajmer, Jhansi, Alwar and Delhi, India, 1932-1935, including description of rioting under the Maharajah of Alwar; experiences working in India, China and Egypt during World War Two, including visit to Palestine; account of working in the post-war timber trade and as a consultant in the Russian Section of the London Chamber of Commerce. Also article 'Anglo-Russian Timber Trade: Personal Reminiscences and Reflections of Col L Steveni', The Timber Trades Journal , 11 March 1961, and article by Richard J Aldrich, University of Nottingham, from Modern Asian Studies 32, 1 (1998), pp. 179-217, entitled "Britain's Secret Intelligence Service in Asia during the Second World War" including analysis of Steveni's role as Director of British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in Asia.

Steven Watson: correspondence with Liddell Hart

Britain, France, NATO and the East Stern article by Liddell Hart

Pairs of stereo photographs mounted on yellow viewfinder cards with series of views published by Underwood and Underwood, including Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, view vertically downwards from the top of the Eiffel Tower, Paris, Regent Street, London, cotton plantation, Georgia, US, Canadian, New Zealand and Australian infantry at Brandfort, South Africa, view of the full moon.

Pairs of stereo photographs mounted on black and white viewfinder cards depicting a variety of scenes including chateau, entrance to large church or cathedral, dockyard with cranes or hoists, triumphal arch, probably the Forum, Rome, castle battlements, possibly Windsor.

Pairs of stereo photographs on grey, pink and liliac coloured viewfinder mounts, showing views of Rushcutter's Bay and Kurraba Point, New South Wales, Australia, and Sydney Botanical Gardens and George Street, Sydney, Australia.

Pairs of stereo photographs on orange viewfinder mounts showing scenes from Geneva, Switzerland, Paris, France, and Cairo, Egypt.

Pair of stereo photographs mounted on viewfinder card of the interior of a chapel [in Westminster Abbey] showing tomb effigies and monumental plaques, including that of John Paul Howard, Earl of Stafford (d. 1762).

Pairs of stereo photographs on white viewfinder mounts, showing views of townships and plantation, St Croix and St Thomas, Caribbean, signed by 'Russell'.

Pair of stereo photographs mounted on viewfinder card of Pitville House, Cheltenham, with man and woman facing camera on East Lawn.

Pairs of stereo photographs on yellow and brown viewfinder mounts, depicting scenes of English countryside, probably Kent, including lake with ornamental gardens, substantial cottage by lake or canal, ruins of ancient building clad in ivy, small cart parked in front of cottage, village with oast houses taken from point of elevation, probably parish church tower, church with graveyard, probably Victorian neo-Gothic.