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Signed by Churchill – Dinner Menu: 1960, Lord Ismay

Lord Hastings Menu + Signatures of Churchill & Viscount Cunningham

On the back cover: authentic signatures of Sir Winston Churchill & Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope

Dinner Menu The Dorchester Sept 26, 1960

The Menu: from the dinner to celebrate the publication of Lord Ismay’s Memoirs

General Hastings Lionel Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, served as Churchill’s chief military assistant and staff officer during WWII. After the war he became Lord Mountbatten’s chief of Burma staff in India and then the first Secretary General of NATO. Upon retirement in 1957 he began writing his memoirs. The Memoirs of General Lord Ismay. Ismay’s Memoirs contain a tribute to Lord Ismay from Churchill.

On 26th September, 1960 a dinner was held to celebrate the publication of Lord Ismay’s Memoirs. Attendees included Sir Winston Churchill and Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope. (Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet during WWII)

London: Heinemann, 1960

ISMAY, Hastings Octavo, Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine
Light spotting to covers
First edition, first impression

Inscribed on the half title: “Lent by CSC from Chartwell”. CSC being Clementine Spencer Churchill.

From the library of Mary Soames (Churchill’s youngest daughter), with the posthumous bookplate of Mary Soames.

Item #406

Price: $4500

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