Chief of Staff: The Diaries of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall
Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1973-1974. 399 & 216, 2 vols., illus., maps, endpaper chart v.1, glossary, apps, index, small stains to bottom fore-edge, some wear to DJ edges. Volume I covers the years from 1933 when Pownall joined the secretariat of the Committee of Imperial Defence as Military Assistant Secretary to June 1940 when, as Chief-of-Staff to the B.E.F., he took part in the evacuation from Dunkirk. Volume II covers the final years of his career up to his retirement in 1944, and is mainly concerned with his time as Chief-of-Staffto Lord Mountbatten, then Supreme Allied Commander in South-East Asia. Condition: good, good.
Keywords: Henry Pownall, Great Britain, WWII, Dunkirk, Lord Mountbatten, Diaries
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