Reference material, World War Two, 1939-1945

References on this page: LIDDELL HART: 15/4/419-459

LIDDELL: 15/4/419-428 British Empire countries and postwar role of the Empire, 1939-1946. Papers dated 1939-1946

LIDDELL: 15/4/419-420 Australia and New Zealand, 1939-1946. Papers dated 1939-1946

LIDDELL: 15/4/419

1939-1946

Newspaper cuttings relating to Australia and New Zealand, 1939-1946, including reintroduction of compulsory military training, Jan 1940; announcement of arrival of Australian Imperial Force troops in Middle East, Mar 1941; resignation of Rt Hon Robert (Gordon) Menzies as Prime Minister of Australia, 28 Aug 1941; appointment of Rt Hon John Curtin as Prime Minister of Australia, 3 Oct 1941; Japanese air raids on Darwin, Northern Territory, Feb 1942; appointment of Gen Sir Thomas (Albert) Blamey as Commander-in-Chief, Australian Military Forces, 27 Mar 1942; appointment of Lt Gen Sir Leslie (James) Morshead as Commander-in-Chief, 2 Australian Army and temporarily attached to HQ New Guinea, 28 Mar 1944. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/420

1940-1941

Publications relating to Australia, 1940-1941, including article entitled 'Tortuous Army routine', author unknown, from Reveille, 1 Dec 1940; article by Dr John Bostock, Psychiatrist, Department of Repatriation, Brisbane, entitled 'The psychology of war', from Reveille, 1 Oct 1941. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/421-422 Canada, 1939-1946. Papers dated 1939-1946

LIDDELL: 15/4/421

1939-1946

Newspaper cuttings relating to Canada, 1939-1946, including arrival of 3 Canadian Div, commanded by Maj Gen Charles Basil Price, in the UK, Aug 1941; appointment of Maj Gen Henry Duncan Graham Crerar as General Officer Commanding 2 Canadian Div, 24 Nov 1941; resignation of Lt Gen Hon Andrew George Latta McNaughton as General Officer Commander-in-Chief, 1 Canadian Army, Dec 1943; replacement of Col Hon James Layton Ralston as Canadian Minister of National Defence by Gen Hon Andrew George Latta McNaughton, 2 Nov 1944. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/422

[1942-1946]

Publications and papers relating to Canada, [1942-1946], including article by Edgar Packard Dean entitled 'Canada's new Defense Program' from Foreign Affairs [1942]; typescript photocopy of book chapter entitled 'Was the Canadian Army in Europe overstaffed?', author unknown [1946]. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/423 South Africa, 1940-1946. Papers dated 1940-1946

LIDDELL: 15/4/423

1940-1946

Newspaper cuttings relating to South Africa, 1940-1946, including wartime career and speeches made by Gen (FM 1941) Rt Hon Jan Christiaan Smuts, 1940-1946; announcement of the appointment of Maj Gen Hendrik B Klopper as General Officer Commanding, 2 South African Div, 6 Jun 1942. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/424-427 India, 1939-1946. Papers dated 1939-1946

LIDDELL: 15/4/424

1939-1941

Newspaper cuttings relating to India, 1939-1941, including Mohandas (Mahatma) Karamchand Gandhi's campaign of civil disobedience, 1940; imprisonment of Jawaharlal (Pandit) Nehru, leader of the Indian Congress Party, 5 Nov 1940; release of Congress Party members from prison, Dec 1941. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/425

1941-1943

Newspaper cuttings relating to India, 1941-1943, including announcement of creation of Indian Army Gurkha paratroop units, Jul 1942; arrest of Mohandas (Mahatma) Karamchand Gandhi, Jawaharlal (Pandit) Nehru and other Congress Party leaders, 10 Aug 1942; extension of term of office for Viceroy of India, Rt Hon Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Dec 1942. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/426

1942

Newspaper cuttings relating to visit to India by Rt Hon Sir (Richard) Stafford Cripps, Lord Privy Seal, for negotiations with Indian leaders on postwar independence, Mar-Apr 1942. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/427

1942-1946

Newspaper cuttings relating to India, 1942-1946, including famine in Bengal, India, Apr-Oct 1943; appointment of Gen Sir Claude (John Eyre) Auchinleck as Commander-in-Chief, India, Jun 1943; appointment of FM Sir Archibald (Percival) Wavell as Viceroy of India, Jun 1943; release of Mohandas (Mahatma) Karamchand Gandhi from prison, 6 May 1944; meeting between Gandhi and Mahomed Ali Jinnah, President of the All India Muslim League, on the postwar creation of Pakistan, 9 Sep 1944; formation of interim government of India from Congress Party members, 26 Aug 1946. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/428 Postwar role of the British Empire, 1942-1944. Papers dated 1942-1944

LIDDELL: 15/4/428

1942-1944

Newspaper cuttings relating to proposals for the postwar future of the British Empire, 1942-1944, including conference in London on postwar role of the Commonwealth, between Prime Minister Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill and the Prime Ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, May 1944. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/429-459 Articles by journalists and military correspondents, 1938-1945. Papers dated 1938-1945

LIDDELL: 15/4/429

1938-1944

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles on political figures and their speeches, 1938-1944, including Rt Hon Sir John Anderson, Lord Privy Seal, Nov 1938; Rt Hon Dr (Edward) Hugh (John Neale) Dalton, Minister of Economic Warfare, May 1940; Rt Hon Sir James (Richard) Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope of Mahon, Lord President of the Council, May 1940; Rt Hon Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour and National Service, Dec 1940; Rt Hon Arthur Greenwood, Minister without Portfolio, Sep 1941; Rt Hon Duncan Edwin Sandys, Financial Secretary at the War Office, Aug 1942; Rt Hon Sir Archibald (Henry Macdonald) Sinclair, Secretary of State for Air, Mar 1944; Capt Rt Hon Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of Production, May 1944. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/430

1939-1940

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by Maj Gen Sir Charles (William) Gwynn, military correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, 1939-1940. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/431

1939-1941

Newspaper cuttings relating to 'Opinion' leader articles from the Daily Express, 1939-1941. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/432

1939-1942

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by Vernon Bartlett for the News Chronicle, 1939-1942. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/433

1939-1942

Newspaper cuttings relating to 'Spotlight' articles by Arthur John Cummings, and 'Advance Column' articles by Philip Jordan for the News Chronicle, 1939-1942. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/434

1939-1942

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by various journalists, 1939-1942, including Harold J Laski for Reynolds News; Rt Hon Clement Richard Attlee, Rt Hon Arthur Greenwood and Maurice Webb for the Daily Herald. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/435

1939-1943

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by Capt Cyril Bentham Falls, military correspondent for The Times, 1939-1943. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/436

1939-1943

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by Henry Noel Brailsford for Reynolds News, 1939-1943. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/437

1939-1943

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by James Louis Garvin, Herbert Agar, Walter Elliot MP and 'Audax' for The Observer, 1939-1943. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/438

1939-1943

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by various journalists, 1939-1943, including Beverley Nichols for the Sunday Chronicle; (Arthur) Beverley Baxter, MP, and Frank Owen for the Evening Standard; William Barkley and Ronald Storrs for the Daily Express; Quinton Varley for the Daily Mail; Ivor Brown for the Manchester Guardian; George Edward Slocombe and Peter D Howard for the Sunday Express; Edward Arthur Donald St George Hamilton Chichester, 6th Marquess of Donegall and Compton Mackenzie for the Sunday Dispatch; George Malcolm Thomson, Rt Hon Josiah Clement Wedgwood, MP, and Michael Foot for the Daily Express and the Evening Standard. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/439

1939-1944

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by military correspondents, 1939-1944, including Gen Sir Hubert (de la Poer) Gough for the Evening Standard; Gen Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson for the Sunday Dispatch; Lt Gen Sir (Wellesley) Douglas (Studholme) Brownrigg for The Sunday Times, Evening News and the Sunday Dispatch; Lt Gen Sir Giffard (Le Quesne) Martel for the Evening Standard; Lt Gen Sir (James) Ronald (Edmondston) Charles for the Sunday Chronicle; Maj Gen Sir Ernest (Dunlop) Swinton for Empire News; Maj Gen Arthur Cecil Temperley for The Sunday Times; Maj Gen Sir Frederick (Barton) Maurice for the Sunday Dispatch; Brig Edgar Carnegie Anstey for the Sunday Times; Lt Col Willoughby Clive Garsia for Reynolds News; (Joseph) Hilaire (Pierre) Belloc for The Sunday Times. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/440

1939-1944

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by military correspondents, 1939-1944, including Brig Gen Cecil Faber Aspinall-Oglander for the Evening News; Richard Capell for the Daily Telegraph; Maj Fielding Eliot for the News Chronicle and Sunday Express; Capt Ferdinand Otto Miksche for Reynolds News; Paul Renker for the Sunday Dispatch; Morley Richards for the Daily Express; Herbert Rosinski for the New York Times; Maj Eric William Sheppard for the Daily Herald; Max Werner for Reynolds News; Maj Hamish Wilson for Reynolds News. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/441

1939-1944

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by 'Scrutator' for The Sunday Times, 1939-1944. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/442

1939-1944

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by Tom Driberg and William Hickey for the Daily Express, 1939-1944. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/443

1939-1944

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles for the Sunday Times, 1939-1944, by Rt Hon Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey of The Chart; Rt Hon Frederic Herbert Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham of Hartfield; AF William Henry Dudley Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork and Orrery; James Lansdale Hodson; Rt Hon Arthur Greenwood, MP; Arthur Bryant; George Malcolm Young; Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe; Robert Charles Kirkwood Ensor; John A Spender; Sir Robert (Gilbert) Vansittart; Henry Newnham; George Macauley Trevelyan, Regius Professor of Modern History, Cambridge; James Gomer Berry, 1st Baron Kemsley of Farnham Royal. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/444

1940-1941

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by John B Firth, J C Johnstone, John Whitaker, Victor Gordon Lennox, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Robert Hield, Frank Kingdon Ward and H P S Matthews for the Daily Telegraph, 1940-1941. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/445

1940-1941

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by John Rutherford Gordon for the Sunday Express, 1940-1941. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/446

1940-1942

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles from the Sunday Pictorial and Daily Mirror, 1940-1942. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/447

1940-1943

Newspaper cuttings relating to leader articles from the Daily Herald, the Manchester Guardian, The Times, the News Chronicle, the Sunday Pictorial, the Daily Express, the Evening Standard, the Sunday Times, Reynolds News, The New York Times, the Daily Mail, the Sunday Dispatch, the Lake District Herald, The Observer, the Daily Sketch, the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Chronicle, the Yorkshire Post, 1940-1943. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/448

1940-1943

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by Hannen Swaffer for the Daily Herald and Forward, 1940-1943. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/449

1940-1945

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by Maj Gen John Frederick Charles Fuller, from The Evening Standard, Daily Herald, Sunday Pictorial, The Manchester Guardian, 1940-1945, with article by Fuller entitled 'The state of England's defense. Staggering costs of a policy of unpreparedness' from Army Ordnance, Sep-Oct 1939. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/450

1940-1942

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by 'Cameronian', Harold J Laski, Stuart Golden, George Leopold Schwartz, H Hamilton Fyfe, Montagu Slater and Professor Arthur Berriedale Keith for Reynolds News, 1940-1942. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/451

1941-1942

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by 'A student of war' for The Daily Telegraph, 1941-1942. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/452

1941-1942

Newspaper cuttings relating to 'The Forum' articles from The Observer, 1941-1942. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/453

1941-1944

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by FM George Francis Milne, 1st Baron Milne of Salonika and of Rubislaw, military correspondent for The Sunday Chronicle, 1941-1944. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/454

1942 Jan-Sep

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by John Rutherford Gordon for the Sunday Express, Jan-Sep 1942. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/455

1942-1943

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by 'Liberator' for The Observer, 1942-1943. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/456

1942-1943

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by Maj Philip Gribble, military critic for The News Chronicle, 1942-1943. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/457

1942-1944

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by 'The military correspondent' for The Evening Standard, 1942-1944. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/458

1942-1945

Newspaper cuttings relating to articles by James Louis Garvin for the Sunday Express and Daily Telegraph, 1942-1945. 1 file

LIDDELL: 15/4/459

1943-1945

Newspaper cuttings relating to 'Spotlight' articles by Arthur John Cummings for The News Chronicle, 1943-1945. 1 file