Key Information
Reference code
LIDDELL HART 1/519/232-308
Title
Correspondence with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Viscount Montgomery, 1966-1968, with related papers
Date(s)
- 1966-1968 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Correspondence between FM Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, and Liddell Hart, and Montgomery and his researcher, Alan Howarth; including the script of Bernard Levin's interview with Montgomery for Rediffusion Television, transmitted on 6 Feb 1967. With newspaper cuttings on the completion of Montgomery's book, A History of Warfare (London, Collins, 1968), a review by John Hetherington of R W Thompson's The Montgomery Legend (London, Allen and Unwin, 1967) published in the Melbourne Age; and copies of Hansard detailing Montgomery's contributions to debates in the House of Lords on the defence of Malta, the defence estimates and other armed forces matters