Key Information
Reference code
LIDDELL HART 13/30/1
Title
Notes and copy correspondence, 1938-1963, compiled in research for Liddell Hart's memoirs
Date(s)
- 1938 - 1963 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Sidelights for memoirs', comprising carbon copies of letters and typescript notes on career and writings, including to Bernard Newman, 9 Nov 1959, on service on the Somme, 1916 with 9 King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry; development of tanks, 1920s; comments by Lt Gen Sir Archibald Armar Montgomery-Massingberd on Liddell Hart's criticism of the failure of the War Office to create a mechanised force, May 1927. With typescript extracts from the second draft of 'The private papers of Lord Hore-Belisha' by Rubeigh James Minney, on reforms of Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Belisha of Devonport, at the Army Council [1937]. 1 file