• Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (31 October 1895 – 29 January 1970), commonly known throughout most of his career as Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, was a British...
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    Churchill and David Lloyd George, and by influential historians such as Basil Liddell Hart. Some regard him as representing the very concept of class-based incompetent...
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  • book Strange Company. The son of Sir Basil Liddell Hart (1895–1970), by his first wife Jessie Stone, Liddell Hart was the godson of Major-General J. F...
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    The British theorists John Frederick Charles Fuller and Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart have often been associated with the development of blitzkrieg,...
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  • range in size from a single file to the 1000 boxes of Captain Sir Basil Liddell Hart's papers. To these are now being added research materials, notably...
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    Other highlights include the former private library of Captain Sir Basil Liddell Hart, after whom the centre is named. The garden opposite the library was...
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    Gollancz, Lord Cork Frederic Maugham, lawyer Reginald Paget, historians Basil Liddell Hart and J. F. C. Fuller, and the bishop of Chichester George Bell. As...
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    wrote articles for the Stuttgarter Zeitung. Rommel collaborated with Basil Liddell-Hart in the publication of The Rommel Papers, a collection of diaries,...
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  • writings of the war, edited by the British journalist and historian B. H. Liddell Hart, the former Wehrmacht officer Fritz Bayerlein, who served on Rommel's...
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    warfare, all with a high degree of accuracy. In 1939, military theorist Basil Liddell-Hart predicted that 250,000 deaths and injuries in Britain could occur...
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    expounded upon by military theorists, such as J. F. C. Fuller and Basil Liddell Hart. Hart, who was an advocate of what later came to be known as 'Blitzkrieg'...
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    British action "against the unmeasured aggrandisement of any power". Basil Liddell Hart considered that this speech saw the "hardening (of) British opinion...
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  • Indirect approach is a military strategy described and chronicled by B. H. Liddell Hart after World War I. It was an attempt to find a solution to the problem...
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    ISBN 978-0-275-99826-4, pp. 124–146. "Sir Basil Liddell Hart | British military historian". Encyclopædia Britannica. "Liddell Hart – an Author who Shaped History"...
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    Clausewitz in Britain and America - Chapter 15. J.F.C. Fuller and Basil Liddell Hart". Clausewitz Com. Retrieved April 30, 2020. K. M. French. "Clausewitz...
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    ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2. Searle, Alaric (1998). "A Very Special Relationship: Basil Liddell Hart, Wehrmacht Generals and the Debate on West German Rearmament, 1945–1953"...
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  • authors such as Desmond Young and Basil Liddell Hart mention "the Rommel legend" in their respective books. Liddell Hart described British efforts to make...
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    affairs. In the former hypothesis, expounded by J. F. C. Fuller and Basil Liddell Hart immediately after the events, the Manstein plan is presented as a...
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    often disagreed about the technicalities of certain weaponry. Sir Basil Liddell Hart, a British military historian who was known largely for his strategy...
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    methods were nicknamed "Blitzkrieg" (lightning war). While historian Basil Liddell Hart claimed "Poland was a full demonstration of the Blitzkrieg theory"...
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    ISBN 978-0-7110-2734-3. Liddell Hart, Basil (1958). The German Generals Talk. Berkley. OCLC 721502207. Liddell Hart, Basil (1999). The Other Side of...
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    its territory and power. According to the modern military historian Basil Liddell Hart, Hannibal planned and executed "the greatest ambush in history". The...
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  • L. Hart (1849–1901), California attorney general Basil Liddell Hart (1895–1970), English military historian and strategic theorist Benjamin Hart (disambiguation)...
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    Bolshevism.".: 318  Writing in 1930, the British military theorist Basil Liddell Hart wrote that: The German acceptance of these severe terms [i.e., the...
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    work, Clark became close friends with historian Basil Liddell Hart, who acted as his mentor. Liddell Hart read the drafts and was concerned by Clark's "intermittent...
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    in accordance with the theories of J.F.C. Fuller, Percy Hobart and Basil Liddell Hart. The cruiser tank was designed for use in a manner similar to cavalry...
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    writings of Britain's Colonel J. F. C. Fuller, a staff officer, and Basil Liddell-Hart (a military journalist) propounded the concept of mobile tank forces...
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    Roberts, Major-General G. P. B.; Bayerlein, Generalleutnant Fritz. Basil Liddell Hart (ed.). "U.S. Combat Studies Institute Battle Report: Alam Halfa"....
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    ISBN 978-0-8014-7631-0. Searle, Alaric (1998). "A Very Special Relationship: Basil Liddell Hart, Wehrmacht Generals and the Debate on West German Rearmament, 1945–1953"...
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  • officer to reach the rank of major-general, he was described by Sir Basil Liddell Hart as "the foremost figure and most dynamic leader in the Territorial...
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