Key Information
Reference code
LIDDELL HART 15/15/133
Title
Transcript of a BBC radio programme about Crusade in Europe, by US General Dwight Eisenhower, 1949
Date(s)
- 1949 Feb 5 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Transcript of BBC Radio discussion programme on Gen Dwight David Eisenhower's book Crusade in Europe (Doubleday, New York, 1948), in which Brig John George Smyth, VC, former military correspondent 1943-1946, Edgar Trevor Williams, Fellow of Balliol College Oxford and former Chief Intelligence Officer to FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, and Wilmot assess the value of the book as source material contributing to the historical record of World War Two and consider Eisenhower's personality, style, quality of command and relations with other commanders and political leaders. 1 file