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Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart, commonly known throughout most of his career as Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, was a British soldier, military historian and military theorist. He wrote a series of military histories that proved influential among strategists. Arguing that frontal assault was bound to fail at great cost in lives, as proven in the First World War, he recommended the "indirect approach" an…
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Born 31 October 1895 · Died 29 January 1970 · Q299431
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“We now know for the first time that the fact that Basil Liddell Hart was a well-known military tactian would have lent weight to any information he did, whether deliberately or accidentally, pass on.”
When Peter Farrer donated volumes of The Family Doctor and other publications he had previously borrowed from Liddell Hart for his research on crossdressing history
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His biographer Alex Danchev noted that Liddell Hart's books were still being translated all around the world, some of them 70 years after they had been written
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Naveh stated that in his letters to German generals Erich von Manstein and Guderian, as well as to relatives and associates of Rommel, Liddell Hart "imposed his own fabricated version of Blitzkrieg on the latter and comp
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That Liddell Hart and Fuller did actually anticipate the role of the armoured forces in a blitzkrieg
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Died 1970-01-29.
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Queen Elizabeth II made Liddell Hart a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours
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His trip stimulated more public interest than that of any other foreign visitor except Marilyn Monroe
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Liddell Hart published his most influential work, Strategy
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Concluded with laudatory comments about Rommel's "gifts and performance" that "qualified him for a place in the role of the 'Great Captains' of history"
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It became clear to the Americans and the British that a German army would have to be revived to help face off against the Soviet Union
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Married Kathleen Sullivan, who remained his wife until his death
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It was picked up by the British press and disseminated in the West as an element of explaining Britain's continued inability to defeat the Axis forces in the North Africa campaign
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Became a lawn tennis correspondent and assistant military correspondent for The Morning Post, covering Wimbledon; and in 1926, published a collection of his tennis writings as The Lawn Tennis Masters Unveiled
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And 1922, probably the long-term effects of his gassing, precluded his further advancement in the small post-war army
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Who at the time served as a staff officer at the Royal Tank Corps
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In time to participate in the Battle of the Somme
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Of directly intervening on the Continent with a great army was a mistake
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Born 1895-10-31.
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