He retired from the Army in 1927 and spent the rest of his career as a theorist and writer. After the war he transferred to the Royal Army Educational Corps, where he prepared a new edition of the Infantry Training Manual. He fought in the Battle of the Somme and, following injury, was transferred to be Adjutant to Volunteer units in Stroud and Cambridge. On the outbreak of WWI in 1914, he volunteered for the British Army, where he became an officer in the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and served with the regiment on the Western Front and was promoted to rank of captain in 1915. Paul’s School in London and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. As part of these two interconnected initiatives, Liddell Hart significantly contributed to the creation of the Rommel myth.īorn on Octoin Paris, France, the son of an English Methodist minister, Liddell Hart was educated at St. Following World War II, he was a proponent of the West German rearmament and the moral rehabilitation of the German Wehrmacht. Liddell Hart, was an English soldier, military historian and military theorist. Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (1895-1970), commonly known throughout most of his career as Capt. It is a brilliantly illuminating study at once of a man and a campaign.”- The Daily Mail “By far the best book that has yet appeared about Colonel Lawrence and the Arab Revolt.
He had to be in supreme command or at the bottom, where orders are received and none transmitted, so a private he became.”-Sir John Squire in the Sunday Times There would have been nothing but irritation in being a serving subordinate officer passing on orders in which probably he would not believe.
There was no rest possible at Oxford where he tried a resident Fellowship of All Souls, and was deluged with callers. His post-war seclusion is very simply explained: he had done a tremendous job under tremendous strain, had conducted with great genius the Desert War, had seen to it that our promises to the Arabs were implemented as fully as they could be, and needed a rest. Lawrence is here represented as a Pilgrim of Eternity, a man of universal capabilities, who, when in action, cannot escape general meditation, and when in retreat has to fight the thirst for action.
“There have been other books about Colonel Lawrence, but none so solid as this…Captain Liddell Hart is a serious historian, a zealous seeker for and sifter of evidence, and a military critic of the first order…As biography it is as nearly full, honest, and plain-spoken as any biography of a living man can be as history it is important… An impressive and convincing portrait as well as an extremely exciting narrative.
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