First published in the year after his death in 1970, Liddell Hart's classic history of the Second World War is the work of a leading military analyst, but also of a compassionate an uniquely original thinker. Sir Basil Liddell Hart was the author of more than thirty books and a world renowned lecturer in strategy and tactics. This book has a lucidity and insight such as no other military writer can match. It is a work of great length and great learning, and a mine of accurate information.