Liddell Hart, BH B HBiblio.com
LIDDELL HART, Basil HenryBiblio.com
The Remaking of Modern Armies.
1927181926London: John Murray 1927. First edition presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To 'Tim' Harington from B. H. Liddell Hart 15 July 1927." General Sir Charles Harington 1872-1940 distinguished himself on the western front serving in the Second Army under Plumer his "brilliant staff work complementing Plumer's powers as a commander" ODNB. Liddell Hart inscribed this copy a few months after Harington's promotion to full general. Five years later Harington was one of the names he proposed when asked by Maurice Hankey the secretary to the Cabinet to suggest a replacement for George Milne as Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Between 1918 and 1920 Harington had served as Deputy CIGS. In Remaking one of his regular collections of published articles Liddell Hart stresses the importance of mobility. "Its moral is that nothing less than rebirth can revive mobility in armies and in warfare. And without mobility an army is but a corpse - awaiting burial in a trench" p. x. Octavo. Original red cloth spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Hint of bowing spine sunned through gaps in jacket gilt tarnished; jacket flaps without price as issued losses to spine and front panel touching first word of title on latter short splits along folds: a very good copy in good jacket. hardcover
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