Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1940-1945 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Copies of editions of World War Two newspapers, including Daily Express; Daily Sketch; Daily Mail; Daily Mirror; Daily Herald; Evening Standard; and Union Jack, 1940-1945, with articles relating to the withdrawal of British and French forces at Dunkirk, France, May 1940; the German occupation of Athens, Greece, Apr 1941; German and Italian frontier assaults across the Egyptian border, Apr 1941; US naval protection of British merchant routes across the Atlantic, Apr 1941; the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, United States, Dec 1941; the Japanese declaration of war on Britain and the United States, Dec 1941; the US naval victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy at Midway Island, Jun 1942; the establishment of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force in London, under the commander of US Gen Dwight David Eisenhower, Jan 1944; the Allied capture of Rome, Italy, Jun 1944; the Allied invasion of Northwest France, Jun 1944; the surrender of the German armed forces in Paris, France, Jun 1944; the unconditional surrender of all German armed forces in Italy, May 1945
General Information
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre in 1996 by Mr Ian Cadell, porter, Norfolk Building, King's College London
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Note
Compiled Nov 1999
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Air warfare
- Armed forces
- Desert warfare
- Humanitarian law
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Maritime warfare
- Military engineering
- Military operations
- Military organizations
- Newspapers
- Occupied territories
- Organizations
- Periodicals
- Publications
- State security
- War
- Warfare
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Communications media
- Wars (events)
- Information sciences
People and Organisations
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.