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Literary: The Second World War: Volume 5 "Closing the Ring"., 1950 - 1951

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/342A-C

Scope and Contents

Miscellanea including proofs of WSC's personal minutes, Jan-Mar 1944; notes and reports by Commodore [George] Gordon Allen (5), Denis Kelly (passim), William Deakin (3), Lord Ismay (3) Air Chief Marshal Sir Guy Garrod and Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall (8); proofs of summary of Air Operations, Jan-Apr 1944; typescripts, annotated by WSC of account of Pacific strategy, 1944, and of the Teheran Conference; letters from Sir Norman Brook (later Lord Normanbrook), Cabinet Secretary (5), on agreement of the United States Government to publication of American documents in Volume 4, commenting on the text of Volume 5, and giving formal permission for the publication of official documents in Volume 5; Historical Section note on General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel; letter from Paul Brooks, Houghton Mifflin Company, New York on choice of "Closing the Ring" by the "Book of the Month Club"; proofs of maps of Italy, Burma [later Myanmar], and the Pacific Theatre, 1943; cuttings from "Life" Magazine serialisation of "The Second World War" Volume 5; letter from General Mark Clark, United States Army, asking for permission to publish letter from WSC dated 8 Jan 1944 on the campaign in Italy; hand drawn map of operations in Russia [Soviet Union], July-Dec 1943; letter from Air Chief Marshal Sir Guy Garrod, annotated by General Pownall; letter from Preston Benson, Father of the Chapel, "The Star", on his criticism of journalists in Volume 4 "The Hinge of Fate"; Remarks by Emery Reves on Volume 5 Book 1; Printed Supplement to the London Gazette, 6 June 1950, publishing Field Marshal Lord Alexander's Despatch on the Italy Campaign to Dec 1944; "rough" maps for Volume 5.

Dates

  • Creation: 1950 - 1951

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

3 file(s) (3 unbound files, 683 items)

Language of Materials

English