| Description | Correspondence and speeches of Basil H Liddell Hart. Lectures include: Reflections on Strategy and Policy and Humanity in Relation to the Past and the Present (Jul 1943); notes discuss Rill Farm near Dartington; Maurice Ash. Letters after 1970 are written by Kathleen Liddell Hart. Also includes four press cuttings. Other writings, speeches, and Sunday Evening talks by Liddell Hart include notes for a criticism of Arthur Bryant's book, The Turn of the Tide (1957); 'An Historical sidelight on the German Offensive of May 1940: Some suggestions on a new military technique - for the British Army - made between 1919 and 1937'; 'The Invasion of France - Its Basic Factors (Attack and Defence)' (11 Jun 1940; 'A Modern Offensive-Defensive Technique' (9 Jun 1940); 'Before and After, A Year of War' (Sep 1940; 'Jesus: Historical Notes' (Sep 1935; Supplement to the News of The Day, 'We Learn from History That We Do Not Learn from History' (6 Oct 1939); 'Reflections' (17 Mar 1941); ' "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" - In War' (24 Nov 1940); typed transcripts of correspondence between Sir Archibald Wavel and B H Liddell Hart, 1926-1939. Later records include typed transcripts of correspondence between Dorothy Elmhirst and the Liddell Harts, obtained from the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives by Michael Young. There is also an essay on German refugees and internees of Dartington Hall written by A Liddell Hart 'Their Finest Hour' (1983). |