[Liddell Hart, Adrian] / [Liddell Hart, Basil H.].

Provenance: From the personal library of Adrian Liddell Hart / Collection of thirteen (13) books on Military History, Strategy and two of his father’s, Sir Basil Liddell Hart, publications. Most of the books with the bookplate of Sir Basil Liddell Hart but with the name of Adrian written to the endpaper. The collection includes: 1. John Strachey – On The Prevention of War (1962) / 2. Lawrence Freedman – The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy (1982) / 3. Edward Mead Earle – Makers of Modern Strategy – Military Thought from Machiavelli to Hitler – Edited by Edward Mead Earle with the collaboration of Gordon A.Craig and Felix Gilbert (1966) / 4. B.H.Liddell Hart – History of the First World War (Reprint London, 1979) / 5. B.H.Liddell Hart – Why don’t we learn from History ? (First American Edition, New York, 1971) / 6. Hugh Thomas – The Spanish Civil War – (Third Edition, Penguin Books, 1977) / 7. Robin Lane Fox – Alexander The Great (Futura, 1975) / 8. Arturo Barea – The Track – It became a battlefield, there where they built the road across Morocco (Four Square Books, 1958) / 9. Steven Runciman – The Fall of Constantinople 1453 (Cambridge University Press, 1969) / 10. Geoffrey Rawson – Nelson Letters (Dent & Sons, 1971) / 11. Christopher Duffy – Borodino – Napoleon Against Russia, 1812 (Sphere Books, 1972) / 12. R.L.V.ffrench Blake – The Crimean War – Concise Campaigns (Sphere Books, 1973) / 13.Pieter Geyl – Napoleon: For and Against (Penguin Books, 1965) //

Mixed Editions. 30 Volumes. London, John Lehmann / Allen Lane – Penguin Books / Rupert Hart-Davis, 1940-1965. Octavo. [The Postcards written from Venice, Florence and Santa Barbarabetween the years 1952 and 1977 / Postcard I: From John Lehmann in Venice to Adrian Liddell Hart: “This city does not boast a supply of the “Sunday Dispatch”, and as the writer was gripped and enthralled by the last installment on June 1st, he hopes you will keep copies of the …for him to read on his return in ten Days time – J.” / Postcard II: From John Lehmann in Florence to Adrian Liddell Hart: “Am staying with [Sir] Harold Acton here in his marvellous Villa – calme luxe [″Villa La Pietra”], all night……pity, you aren’t with me. Off to the sea this afternoon – may post this in Porto Ercole. Your old friend is relaxing. Gracefully – Love J.” [Date hard to decipher, possibly in 1962] / 3. Postcard III: From John Lehmann in Santa Barbara in California to Adrian Liddell Hart: “Terribly sorry to hear about the broken leg, may it mend quickly, as surely it must undo the ministrations of Florence …..Nightingale. I expect to be in England all March, but then off again – to Jimmy Carter Country – Love J.” [20.2.77]. Hardcover and Softcover. Of the series of 28 Volumes of the “New Writing ″ Series, only three with stronger signs of wear and in poorer condition. All others in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Lehmann’s personal copy of Sean O’Faolain’s Autobiography with the original dustjacket in poor condition but the Volume itself very good.

Adrian John Liddell Hart (1922–1991) was a British soldier, Royal Navy officer, Liberal Party politician, author and adventurer. He served briefly in the French Foreign Legion and portrayed it in the 1953 book Strange Company.
The son of Sir Basil Liddell Hart (1895–1970), by his first wife Jessie Stone, Liddell Hart was the godson of Major-General J. F. C. Fuller, and was educated at St Andrew’s School, Pangbourne, before Eton and King’s College, Cambridge. With the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 he joined the British Army and in 1940 became adjutant of the Local Defence Volunteers at Dartington, Devon. In 1941, he joined the trained Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and after training at HMS Collingwood, Fareham, he was selected as an officer candidate.

After obligatory sea time as a junior rank on the Flower-class corvette Carnation during which he saw service in the Battle of the Atlantic, he was commissioned and attended the RNVR officer training course at HMS King Alfred in Hove, Sussex. He was promoted to sub lieutenant on HMS Jamaica in 1942 and saw active service in the Mediterranean in 1943, before joining the Combined Operations Command of British North African Forces later that year and the Signal Division of the Admiralty in London from 1943 to 1944, then HMS Coldstreamer and HMS Guardsman later in 1944. In 1945, he was appointed flag lieutenant to the admiral commanding Iceland.

From 1945 to 1946 Liddell Hart was assistant editor to the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations, and, from 1946 to 1947, was a political affairs officer of the United Nations Organisation, based in New York.

He next joined the Control Service for Germany, attached to the British Army of the Rhine, and the administrative staff headquarters of the Allied Control Council (British sector). He worked for the original Outward Bound Sea School in 1949 and as the House of Commons lobby correspondent of The Yorkshire Observer from 1949 to 1950.

Under the name of Peter Brand, Liddell Hart served in the French Foreign Legion as an ordinary legionnaire from 1950 to 1951, then in the Legion’s First Foreign Cavalry Regiment in French Indo China. In 1952 he took a job with the Outward Bound Trust at Aberdyfi, Gwynedd, and, from 1953 to 1954, worked in the Canadian oil industry.

From 1955 to 1956, he was with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto, before joining the Federation of British Industry from 1959 to 1960, when he was appointed Assistant Director of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors. In 1962, he became an Analyst in London for Gordon Rayment and Co. Ltd., and in 1963 Assistant General Secretary of the United Nations Association International Service.

He was a public relations executive for Informat from 1965 to 1966, then in 1968 joined St John’s House, London, a hostel for homeless young offenders. In 1971 he was briefly Warden of the Elswick Lodge Rehabilitation Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne.
In later life he lived in Stroud, Gloucestershire, where he died in 1991. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: English History · English History – Rare · History – Rare · Liddell-Hart, Adrian · Military · Military History · Military History – Rare · Provenance
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 32445AB

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