Item LIDDELL HART 15/2/35 - Copy extracts, [1930-1940], from books about the Western Front, World War One

Extracts from books relating mainly to Western Front campaigns, 1914-1918, particularly pre-war army reforms and naval expansion; political situation in Britain and relations between and opinions of political and military leaders especially FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, FM Sir Douglas Haig, Rt Hon David Lloyd George, Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill and Rt Hon Herbert Henry Asquith; trench warfare; troop morale and discipline; attitudes to the number of casualties produced by the offensive strategy of leading generals, including There's a Devil in the Drum by John F Lucy (Faber and Faber, London, 1938), Haldane 1865-1915 by Maj Gen Sir Frederick (Barton) Maurice (Faber and Faber, London, 1937) and The Anvil of War, letters between F S Oliver and his brother edited by Stephen Lucius Gwynn (Macmillan and Co, London, 1936). 1 file