Sir Basil Liddell Hart is probably the most famous military critic, historian and philosopher of war and the twentieth century. At various times in his long career, his original ideas on tactics and strategy exerted considerable influence in Britain and beyond, and he was on of the first to foresee the implications of atomic and nuclear weapons for the likely nature of future wars. Yet he was a controversial figure, criticized in some quarter, particularly for his influence on British military policy in the 1930's and his attitude to the defeated German generals after 1945, and in his turn a severe critic of Churchill's statesmanship and Allied grand strategy.

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Authors Note -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The formative Experience, 1914-24 -- The Strategy of Indirect Approach, 1925-30 -- The BRitish Way in Warfare, 1930-34 -- Limited Liability, 1935-39 -- The Critic of Total War -- The Revolution in Warfare, 1945-50 -- Deterrent or Defence, 1950-60 -- Liddell Hart and the German Generals -- Liddell Hart's Influence on Israeli Military Theory and Practice -- Conclusion -- Appendices - Liddell Hart's Principal Publications - Writings on Liddell Hart : an Introductory Guide