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Extract from The Daily Express on Gen Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, and his efforts to eliminate 'red tape' hindering the war effort in the Middle East

Extract from The Economist on Europe's projected population in 1970

Extract from History of the Ministry of Munitions, Vol 12, Part 3, Tanks, (1920), page 67, relating to the establishment and composition of the Tank Board in Aug 1918. 1p

Weizmann. Extract from memoirs, giving account of meeting with Sherif Faisal on Jun 1918. Photocopy of typescript, 3pp Related Material (See also Weizmann autobiography: Trial and Error, 1949.)

Photocopy extract from book The missing peace: the inside story of the fight for Middle East peace by Dennis Ross (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2004), describing his role in the Camp David Summit, Jul 2000. Some manuscript annotations.

Photocopy of 'Political pluralism and the Yugoslav professional military', Anton Bebler, Chapter 6 in The tragedy of Yugoslavia: the failure of democratic transformation Jim Seroka and Vukasin Pavlovic (eds), Sharpe, London, 1992, p105,117,130-139

Photocopy of Le nettoyage ethnique. Documents historiques sur une idéologie serbe, Mirko Drazen Grmek, Marc Gjidara, Neven Simac, Fayard, Paris, 1993, p231-340. Language: French

Copy of an extract of the will of John Carey (dated 1st Jan 1910).

Two extracts made by Stern from first, the charter of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply received from Oliver Lucas, Controller General of Research and Development, Ministry of Supply, 13 Aug 1941, to the effect that the Committee were entitled to use the full technical resources of Ministry of Supply by arrangemant with the appropriate departmental heads and second, a letter from Stern to Lucas of 27 Feb 1942 listing seven research proposals of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply. 1p

Capt F.E. Hotblack, General Stall Intelligence, Advanced Headquarters Tank Corps. Extract from a German document on experiences of infantry attacks at Verdun, 1916. Signed. Typed carbon. 1 p

The Israeli Campaign Jun 1967 (Six Day War) some extracts from broadcasts, books and Liddell Hart's notes on the conflict

Note by Liddell Hart containing extracts copied from his book A greater than Napoleon, Scipio Africanus. 1 file

Extracts from a discussion led by Lt Gen Robert Baden-Powell, Commanding Northumbrian Div, at the Royal United Services Institution, 21 Oct 1908, on whether prominence should be given to teaching parade drill or fighting skills such as machine gun and artillery operation in Territorial Army training, including contributions from Lt Gen Sir Edward (Thomas Henry) Hutton, Arthur Lee, MP, Col Ivor Maxse, RT Hon Hugh Oakley Arnold-Forster, MP, Maj Robert A Johnson, 1 Volunteer Bn, Hampshire Regt, Col Edgar Lambart, Commanding London Territorial Artillery Bde, and Lt Col J R Hanson, Commanding 5 Durham Light Infantry. 1 file

Extracts from a lecture to officers of the Southern Command on the future of warfare (see also LH 9/11/2-4)

Extracts by Liddell Hart from an article by Brian Howard in Horizon entitled 'How France was paralysed-by Red Tape'

Note by Liddell Hart entitled 'Nonsense from the semi-official booklet 'The Territorial Army Today''containing abstracts of passages by Maj-Gen John Hay Beith and Col J K Dunlop, with which Liddell Hart disagreed

Extracts from "The Private Papers of Douglas Haig". "At G.H.Q. by Brig Gen John Charteris, and from Lord Hankey's Diary. Typed. 3 pp.

Photocopy extract from book Bush at war by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster, New York, 2002), describing the negotiations between Gen Colin Powell, United States Secretary of State, and Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel 2001-2006, 2002. Some manuscript annotations.

Papers used for research for Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's memoirs relating to the Dieppe Raid, Allied attack on Dieppe France, 1942, consisting of Extract from Chiefs of Staff (42) 353rd meeting on withholding of advance information of raid and explanation by AF Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Copy Typescript 1p

Papers used for research for Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's memoirs relating to the Dieppe Raid, Allied attack on Dieppe, France, 1942, consisting of extract from Chiefs of Staff (42) 64th meeting, AF Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Chief Commanding Officer, at the time of the postponement of Operation RUTTER (the original name for Operation JUBILEE the Dieppe raid plan). Copy typescript 1p