Background
Liddell Hart was born in Paris, France on October 31, 1895.
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Liddell Hart was born in Paris, France on October 31, 1895.
Liddell Hart received his formal academic education at St Paul's School in London. Later he was attending Cambridge University when World War I began.
When World War I he joined the British army. He rose to the rank of captain and was gassed at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. He continued in the army until 1927 and wrote the official infantry training manual. It was, however, mechanized warfare that he vigorously advocated. His ideas were opposed by many British army officers, but his works were read avidly by such German officers as General Hans Guderian, who led the blitzkrieg through France in 1940, and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who commanded the German army in North Africa in World War II.
In addition to his work on military strategy, Liddell Hart served as a military journalist and military historian. Among his works are The Decisive Wars of History (1929), The Defense of Britain (1939), Dynamic Defense (1940), Why Don't We Learn From History? (1944), Defense of the West (1950), The Tanks (1959), A History of the Second World War (1959), and two volumes of his memoirs (1965). In addition, he edited The Rommel Papers (1953) and The Soviet Army (1956).
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He stressed that mobility and surprise in an "expanding torrent" method of tank attacks would mark the wars of the future.
In April 1918 Liddell Hart married Jessie Stone, the daughter of J. J. Stone and their son Adrian was born in 1922.