Key Information
Reference code
O'CONNOR 4/2/50
Title
Correspondence with Basil Liddell Hart, 1942-1951, with related articles by Liddell Hart
Date(s)
- 1942 - 1951 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
47pp
Scope and content
Correspondence with Liddell Hart, including questionnaire on the desert campaign and O'Connor's answers. With articles by Liddell Hart, 'Is our soldiership carrying much top-hamper?', referring to Clauswitzian theory; 'The problem of quickening manoeuvre'; 'Could we have mopped up Africa two years earlier?' referring to the decision not to advance on Tripoli in 1941; and 'Blunders that gave Rommel his victory'. 47pp