€70
With Draft letter to Rt. Hon. Harold Mac Millan
Barber (Noel) The Week France Fell - June 1940, 8vo Lon. 1976. First Edn., 320pp 8pp of illus. & 2 maps, illus. end papers & orig. d.w. (1)
* Noel Barber (1909 - 1988) was a journalist with the Daily Mail who had an adventurous career in foreign lands (he was stabbed five times in Morocco and was shot in the head while covering the Hungarian Uprising in 1956). Between 1951 and 1979 he wrote 22 works of non-fiction. Following a car crash which ended his career as a journalist, he wrote 6 successful novels.
His very readable account of the fall of France is highly critical of Wm. Bullitt. His statement that Bullitt had never married elicited an angry letter from Anne, his daughter, to Harold Mac Millan, the publisher of "this foolish book". A draft of the letter, and review of the book in the Evening Herald by Brian Quinn is included in the lot.
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