Item LIDDELL HART 9/31/41 - Background research material, 1942-[1970] for chapters on East Asia and the Pacific in History of the Second World War

Research material for chapters on the Far East and the Pacific campaigns in History of the Second World War by Liddell Hart (Cassell, London, 1970; Putnam, New York, 1971), including typescript article by US Cdr Henry Effingham Eccles, commanding USS JOHN D EDWARDS, entitled 'The Java Sea battle', Jun 1942, with typescript 'Memorandum on Java Sea campaign', Jun 1960; two typescript articles by Liddell Hart entitled 'How Japan's sea shield was shattered, the Battle for Leyte Gulf' and 'How we lost the key to the Pacific-by oversight' [1954]; typescript text of lecture by US R Adm Samuel Eliot Morison entitled 'American strategy in the Pacific', Jun 1957; typescript article by Alvin D Coox entitled 'Japanese handling of the Changkufeng incident, 1938: the question of escalation', 17 Jun 1966; typescript notes by Brig Ivan Simson, Chief Engineer, Malaya, Aug-Dec 1941 and Director General of Civil Defence, Jan-Feb 1942, entitled 'Malayan campaign, 1941-1942', with related correspondence, 1967-1968; typescript copy of notes by Julian Errington Ridsdale MP, Feb 1968; typescript notes by Paul Michael Kennedy entitled 'The over-running of the South-West Pacific, Dec 1941-May 1942' [1969]; manuscript notes by Kennedy including 'Operations in the Pacific after the Pearl Harbor attack', 'The fall of Hong Kong', 'Malaya and Singapore operations', 'The fall of the Philippines', 'Japanese invasion of British Borneo', 'Burma', 'The Japanese naval offensive against Ceylon, Mar-Apr 1942', 'The central Pacific advance', 'Madagascar', 'From the end of Imphal to the occupation of Rangoon, Jul 1944-May 1945', 'The atomic bomb and the Japanese decision to surrender' [1969]; typescript notes by Christopher T Hart including 'The Hong Kong campaign', 'The Philippines', 'The Battle of the Coral Sea'. 1 file