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Copies of and extracts from confidential reports on military career, with remarks by commanding officers including Brig Gen James Steele, 22 Infantry Bde; Brig H C Jackson, Experimental Bde; Lt Col E B Ferrers, The Cameronians; and Lt Gen Philip Chetwode, Aldershot Command. 7pp

Typescript extracts from 'Current reports from overseas' (Nos. 22-23, 31, 33-36, War Office, 6 Nov 1943-6 May 1944). 1 file

Extracts from the diaries, including itineraries and notes on travel. 44pp

Diary extracts relating to hunting trips in India, including itinerary, animals killed and photographs taken. 7pp

Notes and extracts from government reports on British imperial defence policy and requirements, including extracts from Chiefs of Staff, Imperial Defence Policy Annual Review 1933, with particular reference to the political situation in Germany and the Sino-Japanese war, 12 Oct 1933; conclusions of the Ministerial Committee on Defence Requirements Report, 31 Jul 1934; proposals for a regular expeditionary force in event of war with Germany, from Defence Requirements Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence, 28 Feb 1934; extracts from memorandum by Gen Sir Archibald Armar Montgomery-Massingberd, Chief of Imperial General Staff, on effects of defence policy on army estimates, 7 Feb 1934. 1 file

Typescript copy of extract from leading articles in Greek newspaper, Patris discussing relations between the Allies and Greece, and stating that Greece should have allied herself with Allies at an earlier stage of World War One. 1p.

Photocopied extracts from Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) concerning supplies for the RAF. With manuscript notes, 3pp. 1 file

Stride (Exeter): photocopy extracts from How the net is gripped: a selection of contemporary American poetry ed. David Miller and Rupert Loydell, 1992

Photocopy extracts from book Israel and the Arabs: an eyewitness account of war and peace in the Middle East by Ahron Bregman and Jihan El-Tahri (TV Books, New York, 2000), including ‘Cast of characters’ listing those involved in the peace process.

File containing 'Book extracts-Djukic's book' Photocopy of book Kako se dogodio vodza, Borbe za vlast u Srbiki posli Josipa Brosa [How the leader happened, The struggle for power in Serbia after Jodif Bros Tito], Slavoljub Djukic, 1992, p55-278, and typescript notes on its contents. Language: Serbo-Croat and English

Letters and contemporary accounts of massacre'. Photocopies of extracts of letters and diaries of US servicemen relating to events at My Lai, Vietnam, on 16 Mar 1968, including copies of letters to Hugh Thompson in regarding reports of his rescue of Vietnamese civilians from My Lai, 1969-1970; extract of letter from Capt Brian Livingston to his wife, 16 Mar 1968, and Livingston's sworn statement to the Peers Inquiry, 26 Feb 1970; extract from Maj Fred Watke's letter to Mrs Watke, 16-18 Mar 1968; and extracts from diary of Thomas A Partsch, 15-18 Mar 1968, 29 Feb and 3 Mar 1968.

Manuscript copies of extracts from letters from Allenby to his wife (Adelaide) Mabel Allenby, describing his service in South Africa, made for circulation to other members of the family. The original letters can be found in section 1/2 at 1/2/1, 1/2/8, 1/2/16, 1/2/25-28, 1/2/31, 1/2/40, 1/2/63, 1/2/84, 1/2/87, 1/2/91, 1/2/97-99, 1/2/101, 1/2/103-105, 1/2/107, 1/2/110-113, 1/2/115, 1/2/117-118, 1/2/120, 1/2/124, 1/2/129-131, 1/2/133-137, 1/2/139, 1/2/140 and 1/2/142. 1 file

Typed extracts from letters sent by Lindsell [to his family] describing his day-to-day work as Quartermaster General to the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) in France and Belgium during the 'phoney war' (Sep 1939-Apr 1940), including a visit from HM King George VI. 10pp.

Typed extracts from four letters to Maj Gen Walter Pipon Braithwaite, Chief of General Staff, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF), from Brevet Lt Col Oswald Arthur Gerald Fitzgerald, Personal Military Secretary to FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, illustrating Kitchener's confidence in Hamilton's leadership of the MEF. 2pp

Typescript extracts from Liddell Hart's principal 1933 diary

Copy diary extracts by Lindsell entitled 'Going East', and consisting of a brief description of a tour made by him of Allied administrative areas in Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Persia, and India previous to taking up the post of Lt Gen in charge of Administration in the Middle East, based in Cairo. 33pp.

Extracts compiled by Liddell Hart taken from press reports, speeches and the BBC, concerning the Norwegian campaign

Extracts by Liddell Hart from newspapers allegedly stirring up hatred of Germans

Extracts from notebooks 15 and 16 in Eric Mottram's sequence of his own poems as looseleaf, typescript poems

The tide of fashion and of feminine influence. Illustrative extracts from a file of current comment', copy of typescript extracts from newspapers and journals. 9pp