B.H. Liddell Hart

Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (31 octombrie 1895 – 29 ianuarie 1970) cunoscut înainte de a fi făcut lord și cu numele de Căpitanul B. H. Liddell Hart a fost un militar, istoric militar și unul din teoreticienii de seamă a perioadei interbelice. Este creditat că prin teoriile sale a influențat semnificativ dezvoltarea luptelor purtate cu tancuri.

Lucrări: Bibliografie parțială

• Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon (W Blackwood and Sons, London, 1926; Biblio and Tannen, New York, 1976)
• Great Captains Unveiled (W. Blackwood and Sons, London, 1927; Greenhill, London, 1989)
• Reputations 10 Years After (Little, Brown, Boston, 1928)
• The decisive wars of history (1929) (This is the first part of the later: Strategy: the indirect approach)
• The Real War (1914–1918) (1930), later republished as A History of the World War (1914–1918).
• Foch, the man of Orleans In two Volumes (1931), Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, England.
• Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American (Dodd, Mead and Co, New York, 1929; Frederick A. Praeger, New York, 1960)
• The Ghost of Napoleon (Yale University, New Haven, 1934)
• The Defence of Britain (Faber and Faber, London, 1939; Greenwood, Westport, 1980)
• The strategy of indirect approach (1941, reprinted in 1942 under the title: The way to win wars)
• The way to win wars (1942)
• Strategy: the indirect approach, third revised edition and further enlarged London: Faber and Faber, 1954
• The Rommel Papers, (editor), 1953
• The Tanks - A History of the Royal Tank Regiment and its Predecessors: Volumes I and II (Praeger, New York, 1959)
• The Memoirs of Captain Liddell Hart: Volumes I and II (Cassell, London, 1965)
• Why don't we learn from history? (Hawthorn Books, New York, 1971)
• History of the Second World War (London, Weidenfeld Nicolson, 1970)
• "Foreword" to Samuel B. Griffith's Sun Tzu: the Art of War (Oxford University Press, London, 1963)
• The Other Side of the Hill. Germany's Generals. Their Rise and Fall, with their own Account of Military Events 1939-1945, London: Cassel, 1948; enlarged and revised edition, Delhi: Army Publishers, 1965
• The Revolution in Warfare, London: Faber and Faber, 1946
• The Current of War, London: Hutchinson, 1941

Note

Bibliografie în limba engleză

• Bond, Brian, Liddell Hart: A Study of his Military Thought. London: Cassell, 1977)
• Cambridge Encyclopedia v.68
• Danchev, Alex, Alchemist of War: The Life of Basil Liddell Hart. London: Nicholson, 1998. ISBN 0-75380-873-0
• Danchev, Alex, "Liddell Hart and the Indirect Approach", 873-0 Journal of Military History, Vol. 63, No. 2. (1999), pp. 313–337.
• Mearscheimer, John, Liddell Hart and the Weight of History. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1988. ISBN 080142089X
• Naveh, Shimon, In Pursuit of Military Excellence; The Evolution of Operational Theory. London: Francass, 1997. ISBN 0-7146-4727-6.

Legături externe

• „Defense Is the Best Attack”. Time Magazine. 9 octombrie 1939. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,762668-1,00.html. 
• "The Indirect Approach: In Sales Campaigns", a white paper on the application of Liddell Hart's teachings to sales
• B.H. Liddell Hart la Find a Grave