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Liddell Hart: Alchemist of War (Hardcover)
by Alex Danchev (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 488 pages
  • Publisher: Weidenfeld Military (14 Sep 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0297816217
  • ISBN-13: 978-0297816218
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,165,069 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Liddell Hart, no warrior, dwelt all his life on war. He obtained its waste, deplored its unreasonableness, but amended the classical dictum as one of his own-if you wish for peace understand war. Although his name is synonuymous w military thought and military controversy, throughout his life he appeared i succession of different guises. He was variously revered and reviled. He adv Lloyd George-among others-and antaginised Winston Churchill.

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“A serious biography of this man, who certainly came closer to the stature of Clausewitz than any other in the twentieth century, has long been overdue. And we are fortunate that the task has fallen to so erudite and percipient a stylist as Mr Danchev” Alan Clark, Daily Telegraph --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Overdoes the indirect approach, 19 Feb 2002
By rerskine@classicfm.net (Belfast, Northern Ireland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Alchemist Of War: The Life of Basil Liddell-Hart (Paperback)
This is very uneven. It starts as a standard narrative from 1895 up to, in effect, Liddell Hart's exit from soldiering at Mametz Wood in 1916. Then I felt it lost the plot and went through a series of not very clearly focused chapters until suddenly it was 1937 and then the plot was lost again until after WW2 was all over. The good qualities of the book are (a) the study of the relationship with Fuller, (b) the exposure of Liddell Hart's gullibility in 'The Other Side of the Hill' and (c)demonstration of Liddell Hart's over-inflated ego (passim). But it is very much an indirect approach to Liddell Hart's life for most of the time. If it had developed his thinking in detailed contrast to other writers that would have been fine; if it had detailed his life and development chronologically that would have been fine too. The problem is that it does neither and I found the book more a test of endurance than an enlightening experience.
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