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Cromwell's campaigns more deeply & to
determine whether he himself deserves the
full credit for the art which I find
suggested in his Preston[,] Dunbar, & Worcester
campaigns. With Montrose in contrast
I feel that I know all that is to be
known, through your book, & that
one can thus access him exactly.
Superb as he was in exploiting mobility
& original in his tactical "mechanism"
I did not find that subtle art in
entrapping the opponent which seems to me
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the highest element in the art of
Generalship. And I can feel sure that
your book would have brought it out
if it had been there. But as a
leader & a man how splendid, how
appealing, & here your lecture
distils the essence of those qualities
which your book "sprayed" so
convincingly over the reader's mind.

Yours very sincerely

BH Liddell Hart

P.S. I have just seen your review of "The