Key Information
Reference code
LIDDELL HART 1/7
Title
Correspondence with Field Marshal Lord Alexander of Tunis, 1933-1967, and later press cuttings
Date(s)
- 1933-1973 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
71 items
Scope and content
Correspondence between FM Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl of Tunis, and Liddell Hart, 1933-1967. Also correspondence between Countess Alexander of Tunis and Liddell Hart, 1969, with notes on the weekly instalments of 'Alexander's Own Story' in The Sunday Times, starting on 19 Feb 1961. Correspondence between Liddell Hart and The Times, concerning Alexander's memoirs, 1961-1962. Newspaper cuttings, 1952-1973, relating to Alexander, including the press controversy over his memoirs (on Alexander's memoirs see also Kenneth Parker in LH 3/10 and John North in LH 1/550)