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Photocopy of Serbia, news, comments, documents, facts, analysis, Republic of Serbia Ministry of Information, Belgrade, Oct 1991, 16pp

Photocopy of booklet 'Cruise Missiles: A vital part of the West's Life Insurance', explaining what a cruise missile is; the importance of NATO investment in cruise missiles; why it was decided to base cruise missiles in the UK and why specifically at the Molesworth and Greenham Common sites; the safety of nuclear weapons and the cost to the UK of the project. Issued by the Ministry of Defence. 10pp.

Photocopied extracts giving biographical details of Godley and his uncle John Robert Godley, taken from An Encyclopedia of New Zealand (Government Printer, New Zealand, 1966) and A Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (Dept of Internal Affairs, New Zealand, 1940). 9pp.

Photocopies of Cabinet meeting minutes concerning RAF flights over France, 15 May 1940-3 Jun 1940; photocopies from Grand strategy Vol.2, September 1939-June 1941 by Sir James Ramsay Montagu Butler (London, HMSO, 1957.) relating to the Battle of France and British air support to the French; manuscript notes from The war lords: military commanders of the twentieth century edited by Sir Michael Carver (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1976) relating to ACM Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding of Bentley and the date of the decision not to send any more fighter aircraft to France, May to Jun 1941. 1 file

Copy of Corax, Cartoon sketches by Predrag Koraksic, with introduction by Dusan Makavejev, Republika, Belgrade 1992.

Essay from a book: 'The great unilateralist illusion' by Alan Gwynne Chalfont, Baron Chalfont.

Photocopy of chapter 'Defence spending in the United Kingdom' by Ron Smith, from The Economics of Defence Spending, ed K Hartley and T Sandler (Routledge). 12pp.

Photocopy of chapter 'Direct rule in Northern Ireland' by P N Bell, examining the machinery of government in Northern Ireland. Publication and date not stated. 21pp.

Chapter 3-6 of untitled book relating to US missile developments in relation to the USSR 1959-1973 including MIRV, Polaris, Poseidon, and the space programme.

Copy CIA documents relating to individuals including Allen Ginsberg, Richard Alpert, Timothy Leary, LeRoi Jones and Eldridge Cleaver, 1965-1970. Also copy douments on the Counter Intelligence Program and the destruction of the New Left, 1968, and on the campus of the University of Michigan, 1966.

Papers comprising copies of confidential personnel reports including character assessments by Lt Gen H A Lawrence, Col C N French, Maj Gen P S Wilkinson and Lt Gen David Campbell. 13pp

Copies of correspondence concerning the McClare Memorial Prize to be awarded annually to a student in the Department of Biophysics, King's College, London, on the basis of academic performance and originality of approach.

Typescript of correspondence between Liddell Hart and T E Lawrence, answers by Lawrence to queries, and comments by Lawrence on drafts of the book 'T.E. Lawrence'-in Arabia and after by Liddell Hart, including manuscript notes. 1 file

Typescript entitled, 'Frame of comments into which T E's (Thomas Edward Lawrence's) letters and other material are to be inserted,' Liddell Hart chapters of T.E. Lawrence to his biographers: Robert Graves and Liddell Hart, file includes typescript copies of correspondence between Liddell Hart and Lawrence. transcripts of their talks, and copies of notes Lawrence made when reading proof of earlier books by Liddell Hart such as The decisive wars of history and The Ghost of Napoleon.

Copies of correspondence between Liddell Hart and Thomas Edward Lawrence with list of letters. 1 file

File containing typescript copies of correspondence relating to proposed cuts to the budget of the Indian Army, 1920-1921, including letters from Edward (Mitchener) Cook, Financial Secretary to the Government of India, Sir Godfrey (Butler Hunter) Fell, Secretary, Army Department, Indian Government, and Gen Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson of Trent, Commander-in-Chief, India. 1 file.

Typescript photocopies of correspondence between Gen Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, Commander in Chief, India, and Hutton, used for the compilation of the official history of the Burma Campaign in 1958, including correspondence relating to Hutton's role as General Officer Commanding, Burma, during the operations leading to the fall to Japanese forces of Rangoon, Burma, and correspondence between Gen Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, Commander in Chief, India, and Gen Alan Francis Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, concerning the replacement of Hutton as Commander in Chief, Burma, by Gen Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander. 16pp.

Copy correspondence relating to the supersession of Brig Gen William Henry Sitwell as General Officer Commanding 34 Bde for failures associated with the attack on Yilghin Burnu (Chocolate Hill), Suvla on 7 Aug 1915, including signals between Maj Gen Frederick Hammersley, General Officer Commanding 11 (Northern) Div and HQ 9 Corps regarding Hammersley's request to replace Sitwell, 18 Aug 1915; letter from Sitwell to Hammersley with Sitwell's account of his operations 6-18 Aug 1915. 12pp

Duplicates of some correspondence, lists of lectures, estimates and accounts

Typescript photocopies of correspondence between Gen Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, Commander in Chief, India, and Gen Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, General Officer Commanding, Burma, relating to the loss of Rangoon, and Prome, Burma, to Japanese forces; withdrawal of Allied troops from Burma via Assam, India; and the establishment of friendly relations with Chinese Generals, with the intention of Gen Sir Archibald Percival Wavell using Col Orde Charles Wingate to liase with the Chinese. 14pp.