Liddell Hart ( Decisive Wars of History ), among many others, have written books in the style of Creasy's work.

" Theorist Basil Liddell Hart considered that the most important aspect of the operation was the degree to which the Ottoman commanders were first denied intelligence on the British preparations for the attack through British air superiority, and then crippled by air attacks on their headquarters and telephone exchanges, paralysing their attempts to react to the rapidly deteriorating situation.

Fuller and Captain B. H. Liddell Hart have often been associated with the development of blitzkrieg, though this is a matter of controversy.

In recent years historians have uncovered that Liddell Hart distorted and falsified facts to make it appear as if his ideas were adopted.

After the war Liddell Hart imposed his own perceptions, after the event, claiming that the mobile tank warfare practiced by the Wehrmacht was a result of his influence.

In hindsight — and with some help from Liddell Hart — this torrent of action was squeezed into something it never was: an operational design.

By " manipulation and contrivance, Liddell Hart distorted the actual circumstances of the blitzkrieg formation and he obscured its origins.

" The early 1950s literature transformed blitzkrieg into a historical military doctrine, which carried the signature of Liddell Hart and Heinz Guderian.

When Liddell Hart was questioned about this in 1968, and the discrepancy between the English and German editions of Guderian's memoirs, " he gave a conveniently unhelpful though strictly truthful reply.

Both Fuller and Liddell Hart were " outsiders ": Liddell Hart was unable to serve as an active soldier because of ill-health, and Fuller's abrasive personality resulted in his premature retirement in 1933.

* Alex Danchev, Alchemist of War: The Life of Basil Liddell Hart.

* 1970 – B. H. Liddell Hart, British historian ( b. 1895 )

Mercenary-on-mercenary warfare in Italy led to relatively bloodless campaigns which relied as much on manoeuvre as on battles, since the condottieri recognized it was more efficient to attack the enemy's ability to wage war rather than his battle forces, discovering the concept of indirect warfare 500 years before Sir Basil Liddell Hart, and attempting to attack the enemy supply lines, his economy and his ability to wage war rather than risking an open battle, and manoeuvre him into a position where risking a battle would have been suicidial.

* 1895 – B. H. Liddell Hart, British military historian ( d. 1970 )

Clausewitz and his proponents have been severely criticized, perhaps quite unfairly, by competing theorists -- Antoine-Henri Jomini in the 19th century, B. H. Liddell Hart in the mid-20th century, and Martin van Creveld and John Keegan more recently.

: a.: For example, writing in his introduction to Sun Tzu's Art of War, B. H. Liddell Hart stated that " Civilization might have been spared much of the damage suffered in the world wars of this century if the influence of Clausewitz's monumental tome On War, which molded European military thought in the era preceding the First World War, had been blended with and balanced by a knowledge of Sun Tzu's exposition on The Art of War.

* October 31 – Basil Liddell Hart, British military historian ( d. 1970 )

The film's depiction of Lawrence as an active participant in the Tafas Massacre was disputed at the time by historians, including Lawrence's biographer Basil Liddell Hart, but most current biographers accept the film's portrayal of the massacre as reasonably accurate.

Contemporary biographer Basil Liddell Hart publicly criticized the film, engaging screenwriter Robert Bolt in a lengthy correspondence over the film's portrayal of Lawrence.

Military historian B. H. Liddell Hart famously declared that Sherman was " the first modern general ".

The influential 20th century British military historian and theorist B. H. Liddell Hart ranked Sherman as one of the most important strategists in the annals of war, along with Scipio Africanus, Belisarius, Napoleon Bonaparte, T. E. Lawrence, and Erwin Rommel.

The main evidence of Liddell Hart's deceit and " tendentious " report of history can be found in his letters to the German Generals Erich von Manstein and Heinz Guderian, as well as relatives and associates of Erwin Rommel.

Historian Kenneth Macksey found Liddell Hart's original letters to Guderian, in the General's papers, requesting that Guderian give him credit for " impressing him " with his ideas of armoured warfare.

* " A boat beneath a sunny sky " is the first line of a titleless acrostic poem at the end of the book — the beginning letters of each line, when put together, spell Alice Pleasance Liddell.

The innovative German Major ( later General ) Heinz Guderian developed the motorised part of this strategy as the head of one of the Truppenamt groups and may have incorporated Fuller's and Liddell Hart's ideas to amplify the groundbreaking Blitzkrieg effect that was seen used by Germany against Poland in 1939 and later against France in 1940.

Guderian, who was fluent in both English and French studied the works of British maneuver warfare theorists J. F. C. Fuller and, debatably, B. H. Liddell Hart ; also the writings, interestingly enough, of the then-obscure Charles de Gaulle.

Due to the strength of the Maginot Line it was decided to avoid a direct attack and instead out flank it through the Low Countries utilizing the military doctrine of " blitzkrieg " ( Lightning war in English ) developed by Basil Liddell Hart, an English military theorist, and enhanced by Heinz Guderian, utilizing a combination of power and speed.

Whereas Germany, when it began rearming following Hitler's rise to power, eagerly embraced concepts of mechanised warfare as advocated by individuals such as Heinz Guderian, many high-ranking officers in Britain had little enthusiasm for armoured warfare, and the ideas of Basil Liddell Hart and J. F. C.

Liddell Hart also stated that study of Sherman's campaigns had contributed significantly to his own " theory of strategy and tactics in mechanized warfare ", which had in turn influenced Heinz Guderian's doctrine of Blitzkrieg and Rommel's use of tanks during the Second World War.

Liddell Hart gave details of the Mongol campaign against Khwarezm, underscoring his own philosophy of " the indirect approach ," and highlighting many of the tactics used by Genghis which were to be subsequently included in the Blitzkrieg tactics employed centuries later by Nazi Germany.

They also used the pseudonyms Lawrence O ' Donnell and C. H. Liddell, as well as collaborating under their own names.

* 1970 Kant on the foundation of morality ; a modern version of the Grundlegung, translated with commentary by Brendan E. A. Liddell.

* A Greek-English Lexicon, Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott, revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones, with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie, Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK, 1940, Online version at Perseus website.

The most prominent English language version is the 1952 translation by Constantine Fitzgibbon, with a foreword by Captain B. H. Liddell Hart.

In this passage Lewis Carroll incorporated references to everyone present on the original boating expedition of July 4, 1862 during which Alice's Adventures were first told, with Alice as herself, and the others represented by birds: the Lory was Lorina Liddell, the Eaglet was Edith Liddell, the Dodo was Lewis Carroll, and the Duck was Rev.

Westcott was pleased with his discovery and called on fellow Freemason Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers for a second opinion.

A sign in a shop window in Italy proclaims " No tick tock | Tic Tac ", in imitation of the sound of a clock. An onomatopoeia or onomatopœia (, from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία ; ὄνομα for " name " and ποιέω for " I make ",< ref > ποιέω, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus <</ ref > adjectival form: " onomatopoeic " or " onomatopoetic ") is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.

* July 4 – Charles Dodgson ( better known as Lewis Carroll ) extemporises the story that becomes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for the 10-year-old Alice Liddell and her sisters on a rowboat trip on The Isis from Oxford to Godstow.

Another World War II-era student of Liddell Hart's writings about Sherman was George S. Patton, who "' spent a long vacation studying Sherman's campaigns on the ground in Georgia and the Carolinas, with the aid of Hart's book '" and later "' carried out his plans, in super-Sherman style '".

In Britain, the campaign to free Raeder was headed by the historian Captain Basil Liddell Hart and Lord Hankey, both of whom repeatedly charged that the attack on Norway was a " preventive war " forced on Germany, and as such, not only was Raeder innocent, but that Winston Churchill should have been convicted of conspiracy to commit aggression against Norway in place of Raeder.

Alice was published in 1865, three years after the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat, on 4 July 1862, up the Isis with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell ( the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church ): Lorina Charlotte Liddell ( aged 13, born 1849 ) (" Prima " in the book's prefatory verse ); Alice Pleasance Liddell ( aged 10, born 1852 ) (" Secunda " in the prefatory verse ); Edith Mary Liddell ( aged 8, born 1853 ) (" Tertia " in the prefatory verse ).

Liddell Scott provides other sources for the shortened form of this verb, including Acusilaus ( 5th century BC ), Joannes Laurentius Lydus ( 4th century AD ) and the Scholiast on Aeschylus, Eumenides, who cites Pindar relating how the earth tried to tartaro " cast down " Apollo after he overcame the Python.

The character has been said to be based on Alice Liddell, a child friend of Charles Dodgson ( Lewis Carroll ).

Liddell Hart speculated that this was why he allowed himself to be persuaded by Joffre to order the attack at Loos in September 1915, an attack on ground not favoured by French or Haig ( then commanding British First Army ).

" B. H. Liddell Hart's definition put less emphasis on battles, defining strategy as " the art of distributing and applying military means to fulfill the ends of policy ".

On 1 December 2002, following the release of declassified documents ( including the diary of wartime MI5 head Guy Liddell ), investigative journalist Martin Bright published an article in The Observer that claimed Home Secretary John Anderson intervened to prevent Mitford being questioned on her return from Germany and that the shooting, which " has become part of the Mitford myth ," may have been invented to excuse this.

Meanwhile his life work, the great Lexicon ( based on the German work of Franz Passow ), which he and Robert Scott began as early as 1834, had made good progress, and the first edition of Liddell and Scott's Lexicon appeared in 1843.