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The memoirs of General Lord Ismay.
- Title
- The memoirs of General Lord Ismay.
- Author
- Ismay, Hastings Lionel Ismay, Baron, 1887-1965.
- Publication
- New York : Viking Press, 1960.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DA69.3.I8 A3 1960 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 488 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- A review of a lifetime of British Army service in high posts, notably that of Churchill's representative on the Chiefs of Staff Committee in World War II and first Secretary-general of NATO. Ismay's memoirs, besides, shed important light on the decisions made in all theaters of war and on Allied-Russian relations.
- Subjects
- Generals
- Personal narratives
- 1939-1945
- World War > (1939-1945)
- Ismay, Hastings Lionel Ismay, Baron, 1887-1965
- Récits personnels
- Autobiographies
- Personal narratives > British
- Biographies
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Great Britain
- Generals > Great Britain > Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, British
- Genre/Form
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Personal narratives
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Personal narratives – British
- Autobiographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Récits personnels.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliographical footnotes.
- Contents
- Subaltern in India: 1902-1914 -- Scallyway in Africa: 1914-1920 -- Staff training: 1920-1925 -- The seats of the mighty: 1915-1930 -- The early thirties: 1930-1936 -- Three years of suspense: 1936-1939 -- The twilight war: 1939-1940 -- Mr. Chamberlain's machinery of war direction: 1940 -- The rape of Norway and Denmark: 1940 -- Assault on the West: 1940 -- The last days of France: 1940 -- Retrospect: 1940 -- Mr. Churchill's machinery of war direction -- Assault on Britain: 1940 -- Middle East see-saw: 1940-1941 -- Early contacts with the United States: 1941 -- A strange alliance -- The menace of Japan -- Anglo-American strategy: 1942 -- Auchinleck and after: 1941-1942 -- The Casablanca Conference: 1943 -- The Washington Conference : 1943 -- The First Quebec Conference: 1943 -- With Eden to Moscow: 1943 -- The Cairo and Teheran Conferences: 1943 -- France redeemed: 1944 -- Warsaw and Athens: 1944 -- The Second Quebec Conference: 1944 -- Visits to Moscow and Paris: 1944 -- Armistice Day in Paris: 1944 -- The Yalta Conference: 1944-1945 -- The End of the Road: 1945-1946 -- Last days of the Raj: 1947 -- A medley of assignments: 1947-1959.
- ISBN
- 0837162807
- 9780837162805
- LCCN
- 60014086
- OCLC
- ocm00397352
- 397352
- SCSB-14005929
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library