Correlli barnett biography of barack obama

When I was a young, and very green, military historian in the early 1960s, three or four figures in particular loomed largest in my personal horizons. They included Michael Howard, who was then doing so much to establish war studies; Basil Liddell Hart, for whom I worked as an archivist and research assistant in 1962 and 1963; John Terraine, whose rehabilitation of the reputation of Douglas Haig ran directly counter to the more widely accepted views of Liddell Hart; and Correlli Barnett, whose books The Desert Generals (1960) and The Swordbearers (1963) had, in contrast, won Liddell Hart’s approval and endorsement.

I must confess that, during that period, my feet were firmly planted in the latter camp.

By the time I first actually met Correlli ‘Bill’ Barnett, I had joined the staff of the Imperial War Museum and in 1964 one of my new roles was to help ensure that the Museum’s extensive archive material – especially its film footage -  was being responsibly used in the productio