Basil Henry Liddell Hart (GBR)

Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (31 October 1895 – 29 January 1970), commonly known throughout most of his career as Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, was an English soldier, military historian and military theorist. He is often credited with greatly influencing the development of armoured warfare, although some research casts some doubt on the extent of his influence upon the pre-war German military.

Born in Paris, the son of an English Methodist minister, Liddell Hart received his formal academic education at St Paul's School in London and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His mother's side of the family, the Liddells, came from Liddesdale, on the border with Scotland, and were associated with the South-Western Railway. The Harts were farmers from Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. As a child he was fascinated by aviation.

Bibliography: 

Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon (originally: A Greater than Napoleon: Scipio Africanus; W Blackwood and Sons, London, 1926; Biblio and Tannen, New York, 1976)
Lawn Tennis Masters Unveiled (Arrowsmith, London, 1926)
Great Captains Unveiled (W. Blackwood and Sons, London, 1927; Greenhill, London, 1989)
Reputations 10 Years After (Little, Brown, Boston, 1928)
Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American (Dodd, Mead and Co, New York, 1929; Frederick A. Praeger, New York, 1960)
The decisive wars of history (1929) (This is the first part of the later: Strategy: the indirect approach)
The Real War (1914–1918) (1930), later republished as A History of the World War (1914–1918).
Foch, the man of Orleans In two Volumes (1931), Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, England.
The Ghost of Napoleon (Yale University, New Haven, 1934)
T.E. Lawrence in Arabia and After (Jonathan Cape, London, 1934)
World War I in Outline (1936)
The Defence of Britain (Faber and Faber, London, 1939; Greenwood, Westport, 1980)
The Current of War, London: Hutchinson, 1941
The strategy of indirect approach (1941, reprinted in 1942 under the title: The way to win wars)
The way to win wars (1942)
The Revolution in Warfare, London: Faber and Faber, 1946
The Other Side of the Hill. Germany's Generals. Their Rise and Fall, with their own Account of Military Events 1939–1945, London: Cassel, 1948; enlarged and revised edition, Delhi: Army Publishers, 1965
Strategy: the indirect approach, third revised edition and further enlarged London: Faber and Faber, 1954
The Rommel Papers, (editor), 1953
The Tanks – A History of the Royal Tank Regiment and its Predecessors: Volumes I and II (Praeger, New York, 1959)
"Foreword" to Samuel B. Griffith's Sun Tzu: the Art of War (Oxford University Press, London, 1963)
The Memoirs of Captain Liddell Hart: Volumes I and II (Cassell, London, 1965)
History of the Second World War (London, Weidenfeld Nicolson, 1970)
Why don't we learn from history? (Hawthorn Books, New York, 1971)

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._H._Liddell_Hart