ABSTRACT
When the Institute was founded, Liddell Hart's reputation was only just beginning to recover from nearly twenty years of neglect and mis-representation; which itself had followed twenty years of dazzling success. While still in his early twenties, at the end of the First World War, he had been invited to redraft the British Army infantry training manual. The position Liddell Hart occupied at the War Office, of power without responsibility, irritated even those regular officers who most admired his writings. By 1939 he was a highly unpopular figure in official circles, and a year later he was no less unpopular with the country as a whole. The profound respect in which he was held by the Germans enabled him to enhance his reputation as a historian yet further by his pioneer study of the German conduct of the war, based on his interviews with the captured German Generals, The Other Side of the Hill.
