Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1914 Aug - Nov (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
7 vols
Scope and content
Scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings on World War One, 3 Aug-27 Nov 1914, comprising a daily record of progress of the war on land, at sea and in the air on the Western, Eastern, Balkan and Turkish Fronts, in Africa and the Far East, in the North, Adriatic and Mediterranean seas and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Including reports on military operations in France and Belgium, notably the fall of Namur to the Germans in Aug, Battle of the Marne in Sep, Battle of the Aisne in Sep, fall of Antwerp in Oct, First Battle of Ypres, Oct-Nov; articles on military leaders, monarchs, national rulers and regular soldiers of the Allies and Central Powers; battle statistics; photographs; maps; satirical propaganda cartoons. 7 vols presented to Lady Liddell Hart by Mrs F H Ennor of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, in Mar 1970. 7 vols