GB 0099 KCLMA Russell - RUSSELL, Don (fl 1927-1970)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Russell Created 1927-1943, 1957-1970 Collection (fonds) 1 file Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart
Worked as a journalist for The Chicago Evening Post, 1927; editor of The Chicago Daily News [1928-1948]; worked for The Chicago Tribune, 1948; Second Assistant editor, The American Peoples Encyclopedia, 1953.Publications: The lives and legends of Buffalo Bill (University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, USA, 1960).

Collected by Don Russell and given to Dan J Lapinski, who presented the items to the Centre in 1998.

Twenty seven letters from Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart to Russell, 1927-1943, mostly relating to books and articles by Liddell Hart, with four typescript articles by Liddell Hart, 'The problem of quickening manoeuvre', Dec 1942; 'Arms for the attack', Dec 1942; 'Where are our airborne troops?', Jan 1943; and 'Is our soldiership carrying too much top hamper?', Feb 1943. Also two typescript copies of 'Historical note on the defence plan that foiled Rommel's invasion of Egypt in 1942 - by the officer who designed it (E E Dorman Smith)', Apr 1943, with newspaper cuttings, 1943, 1957-1970, and edition of Picture Post, 15 May 1943.

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Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
English

Summary guide entry available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

The papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence with Russell, 1927-1953 (Ref: LH 1/616), a review by Russell of Liddell Hart's book The ghost of Napoleon (Faber and Faber, London, 1933) entitled 'Liddell Hart castigates absolute war', from The Chicago Daily News, Jul 1935 (Ref: LH 9/12/8), and an article by Russell from Facts entitled 'Bradley A Fiske-father of the flying torpedo' [1960].

Aug 1999 Wars (events) Armed forces Armoured warfare British Army Desert warfare Egypt Essays Hart , Sir , Basil Henry , Liddell , 1895-1970 , Knight , Captain , military historian x Liddell Hart , Sir , Basil International conflicts International relations Literary forms and genres Literature Military engineering Military organizations Newspapers North Africa O'Gowan , Eric Edward , 1895-1969 , Major General x Smith , Eric Edward , Dorman- x Dorman-Smith , Eric Edward Organizations Periodicals Prose Publications Rommel , Erwin Johannes Eugen , 1891-1944 , German Field Marshal State security War Warfare World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Communications media Information sciences

Collected by Don Russell and given to Dan J Lapinski, who presented the items to the Centre in 1998.

Twenty seven letters from Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart to Russell, 1927-1943, mostly relating to books and articles by Liddell Hart, with four typescript articles by Liddell Hart, 'The problem of quickening manoeuvre', Dec 1942; 'Arms for the attack', Dec 1942; 'Where are our airborne troops?', Jan 1943; and 'Is our soldiership carrying too much top hamper?', Feb 1943. Also two typescript copies of 'Historical note on the defence plan that foiled Rommel's invasion of Egypt in 1942 - by the officer who designed it (E E Dorman Smith)', Apr 1943, with newspaper cuttings, 1943, 1957-1970, and edition of Picture Post, 15 May 1943.

1 file

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

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English

The papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence with Russell, 1927-1953 (Ref: LH 1/616), a review by Russell of Liddell Hart's book The ghost of Napoleon (Faber and Faber, London, 1933) entitled 'Liddell Hart castigates absolute war', from The Chicago Daily News, Jul 1935 (Ref: LH 9/12/8), and an article by Russell from Facts entitled 'Bradley A Fiske-father of the flying torpedo' [1960].

Summary guide entry available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

• inglês