The memoirs of General the Lord Ismay
1960, First Edition. London : Heinemann. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Boards stained/bleached[?]. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #472609
Physical description; ix, 486 pages illustrations, maps 22 cm. Notes; Errata slip tipped in. Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Part I : Apprenticeship -- Subaltern in India -- Scallywag in Africa -- Staff training -- The seats of the mighty -- The early thirties -- Part II : The Crucial Years -- Three years of suspense -- The twilight war -- Mr Chamberlain's machinery of war direction -- The rape of Norway and Denmark -- Assault on the west -- The last days of France -- Retrospect -- Mr Churchil's machinery of war direction -- Assault on Britain -- Middle East see-saw -- Early contacts with the United States -- A strange alliance -- The menace of Japan -- Anglo-American strategy -- Auchinleck and after -- The Casablanca Conference -- The Washington Conference -- The first Quebec Conference -- With Eden to Moscow -- The Cairo and Teheran Conferences -- France redeemed -- Warsaw and Athens -- The second Quebec Conference -- Visits to Moscow and Paris -- Armistice Day in Paris -- The Yalta Conference -- The end of the road -- Part III : Rolling stone -- Last days of the Raj -- A medley of assignments. Subjects; Ismay, Hastings Lionel Ismay Baron 1887-1965. World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, British. Generals Great Britain ; Correspondence. World War, 1939-1945.
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