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Educating the Blimps

Geoffrey Best

  • Alchemist of War: The Life of Basil Liddell Hart by Alex Danchev
  • Studies in British Military Thought: Debates with Fuller and Liddell Hart by Brian Holden Reid

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Geoffrey Best’s Churchill and War was published in 2005. He taught history at Sussex for many years.

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