The Political Diaries of C. P. Scott, 1911-1928

Scott, Charles Prestwich) Wilson, Trevor Ed

Cornell University Press

The Falcons of the World

Cade, Tom J.

For almost half a century, Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (1895–1970) was the most highly regarded writer on strategy and military matters in the English-speaking world and even today, his ideas are still discussed and debated. Although he helped to formulate Great Britain's military doctrine after the First World War, it was his critique of British strategic policy before and during the early years of the Second World War that earned him a seemingly unassailable reputation as a brilliant strategist.
In this unflinching but balanced book, John J. Mearsheimer reexamines Liddell Hart's career and uncovers evidence that he manipulated the facts to create a false picture of his role in military policy debates in the 1930s. According to Liddell Hart's widely accepted account, his progressive ideas about armored warfare were rejected by the British army and adopted instead by the more far-sighted German generals. The Wehrmacht's application of his theory of blitzkrieg, he claimed, resulted in the defeat of France in 1940, a disaster he foresaw. Setting the historical record straight, Mearsheimer shatters once and for all the myth of Liddell Hart's prescience in the interwar period.
Liddell Hart had, in fact, "been quite wrong on the basic military questions of the 1930s," Mearsheimer finds, "and his writings helped lead the British government into serious error. Wide recognition of Liddell Hart's misjudgments badly damaged his reputation during the war, and Mearsheimer shows how he mounted a successful campaign to restore his image. Although some of Liddell Hart's military theories are still relevant, Mearsheimer warns that they should be applied with caution. This troubling book offers a striking illustration of how history can be used and abused―how a gifted individual can create their own self-serving version of the past.
Based on scrupulously documented evidence, Liddell Hart and the Weight of History is certain to be of great interest to those concerned with military policy and history.

Liddell Hart & the Weight of History

Engineering & Transportation

Mearsheimer, John J.

Engineering

Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades 1000-1300 (Warfare and History)

History

France, John

Europe

Thomas Hardy (Novelists & Their World)

Brooks, Jean R.

Hough, Graham (editor)

Literature & Fiction

Medieval foundations of Renaissance humanism

Politics & Social Sciences

ULLMANN, Walter

Philosophy

Physical description; xvi, 322 p., [8] leaves of pls. : ill., map, alb. geneal. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Fatto d'arme di Romagna - History. Nobility - Italy - Emilia-Romagna - History.

The Lords of Romagna: Romagnol Society and the Origins of the Signorie

Larner, John

Quantitative Genetics in Sheep Breeding

Science & Math

Helen Newton Turner and Sydney S. Y. Young

Evolution

Knowledge & Explanation In History:

Atkinson, R. F.

This new collection of the letters that Lewis Carroll wrote to the illustrators and prospective illustrators of his books affords fresh insights into Carroll's complex character, traces the history of the books that became great classics of the Victorian era, and charts the sometimes tempestuous seas of Carroll's relationships with his correspondents. Carroll, a meticulous artist, made detailed demands upon his illustrators, who included John Tenniel, Henry Holiday, Arthur Burdett Frost, Harry Furniss, and Gertrude Thomson.Lewis Carroll and His Illustrators reveals the author as an expert in the details of book production in an age in which new technologies repeatedly altered the publishing process. Morton N. Cohen and Edward Wakeling's general introduction to the volume looks at Lewis Carroll the man and touches on his place in Victorian publishing. Each group of letters is preceded by an introduction that includes a brief biography of the artist and a summary of his or her collaboration with Carroll. Many of the letters include Carroll's own sketches as aids to his collaborators. Comparison of these sketches with the artists' final drawings, also included, shed light on the genesis of the illustrations. Some letters from the illustrators to Carroll, also printed here, add greater insight into the process.

Lewis Carroll & His Illustrators: Collaborations & Correspondence, 1865-1898

Cohen, Morton N. & Edward Wakeling (eds.)

Biographies & Memoirs

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