Word: hart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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COLONEL LAWRENCE: THE MAN BEHIND THE LEGEND-Liddell Hart-Dodd, Mead...
...From Revolt in the Desert, his own abridgment of his Seven Pillars of Wisdom* many a reader knows the salient facts of the most monumental chapter of Lawrence's career. His good friend Robert Graves's Lawrence & the Arabian Adventure filled in some further gaps. Now Liddell Hart, also a friend of long standing, attempts to answer all possible pertinent questions about Lawrence and to place him in the niche history is getting ready...
Much of Colonel Lawrence: The Man Behind the Legend will be old stuff to Lawrence enthusiasts, but they will want to read it if only for the 14,000 words of quotations from Lawrence's unpublished papers. Liddell Hart, military expert, places Lawrence's Arabian campaign in relation to the rest of the World War and gives the clearest exposition of it extant. He deprecates the view that Lawrence's success as a leader of irregular troops came from innate genius, calls Lawrence a profound student of tactics, a military thinker. Basis of Lawrence's tactical...
...quickly. If an agreement is reached we will then . . . have limits up to which we can arm, and it will be our duty to make ourselves as competent as we may up to that limit." To pacifists the only crumb of comfort was thrown by Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart, Britain's best-known and most articulate military strategist. Capt. Liddell Hart is the author of The Real War, the successor of the late great Lieut. Colonel Charles A'Court Repington as military expert on the London Daily Telegraph and the inventor of the Battle Drill System...
...agrees thoroughly with Captain Liddell Hart's theory of small armies of technical experts is Germany's General Hans von Seeckt, builder of the Rcichswchr. Because of the Nazi cry for a great army General von Seeckt is at present very much out of the German political picture...