IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Russell
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: RUSSELL, Don (fl 1927-1970)
Date(s): Created 1927-1943, 1957-1970
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Worked as a journalist for The Chicago Evening Post, 1927; editor of The Chicago Daily News [1928-1948]; worked for The Chicago Tribune, 1948; Second Assistant editor, The American Peoples Encyclopedia, 1953.Publications: The lives and legends of Buffalo Bill (University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, USA, 1960).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Twenty seven letters from Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart to Russell, 1927-1943, mostly relating to books and articles by Liddell Hart, with four typescript articles by Liddell Hart, 'The problem of quickening manoeuvre', Dec 1942; 'Arms for the attack', Dec 1942; 'Where are our airborne troops?', Jan 1943; and 'Is our soldiership carrying too much top hamper?', Feb 1943. Also two typescript copies of 'Historical note on the defence plan that foiled Rommel's invasion of Egypt in 1942 - by the officer who designed it (E E Dorman Smith)', Apr 1943, with newspaper cuttings, 1943, 1957-1970, and edition of Picture Post, 15 May 1943.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1 file
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Summary guide entry available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Collected by Don Russell and given to Dan J Lapinski, who presented the items to the Centre in 1998.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
The papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence with Russell, 1927-1953 (Ref: LH 1/616), a review by Russell of Liddell Hart's book The ghost of Napoleon (Faber and Faber, London, 1933) entitled 'Liddell Hart castigates absolute war', from The Chicago Daily News, Jul 1935 (Ref: LH 9/12/8), and an article by Russell from Facts entitled 'Bradley A Fiske-father of the flying torpedo' [1960].
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 1999