Sir Basil Liddell Hart

part of the School of Strategic Studies

Wikimedia Articles

 * Sir Basil Liddell Hart, Wikipedia article.

Primary Texts

 * Foch: The Man Of Orleans. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1932.
 * "The Ratio of troops to Space", Military Review, 40 (April 1960), pp. 3-11.
 * The Rommel Papers. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1953.
 * The Strategy Of Indirect Approach. London: Faber And Faber, 1941.
 * "Western Defense Planning". Military Review, vol. 77(January-February 1997), pp.191-196.
 * Why don't We Learn from History ?. St Leonards: Allen and Unwin, 1972.

Commentaries and Articles

 * Bond, Brian, "Nuclear-Age Theories of Sir Basil Liddell Hart". Military Review, vol. 50(August 1970), pp.10-20.
 * Bond, Brian, "Second Thoughts on War: A Conversation with B. H. Liddell Hart". Military Review, vol. 45(September 1965), pp.23-32.
 * Davidson, Kenneth L., "Clausewitz and the Indirect Approach… Misreading the Leader", AirPower Journal, vol. 2 (Winter 1988), pp.42-52.
 * Morelock, Jerry D., "The Legacy of Liddell Hart". Military Review, vol. 66(May 1986), pp.65-75.
 * Wheeler, Michael O., "The Employment of Tactical Air Power: A Study in the Theory of Strategy of Sir Basil H. Liddell Hart", Air University Review, vol. 26(September-October), pp.2-14.

Primary Texts

 * Deterrent or Defense, a Fresh Look at the West's Military Position. New York: Praeger, 1960.
 *  Strategy. London: Penguin Books, 1991 (2nd ed.).

Commentaries and Articles

 * Bond, Brian, Liddell Hart: A Study of his Military Thought. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1977. ISBN 0813508460
 * Danchev, Alex. "Liddell Hart and the Indirect Approach", The Journal of Military History, Vol. 63, No. 2. (1999), pp. 313–337.
 * Gat, Azar, Fascist and Liberal Visions of War: Fuller, Liddell Hart, Douhet, and Other Modernists. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0198207158
 * Mearsheimer, John J., Liddell Hart and the Weight of History. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
 * Reid, Brian H.,Studies in British Military Thought: Debates With Fuller and Liddell Hart. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. ISBN 0803239270

Biographical Works

 * Danchev, Alex, Alchemist of War: The Life of Basil Liddell Hart. London: Orion Publishing Group, 1998. ISBN 0297816217