Pawle, Gerald (foreword Averell Harriman), — THE WAR AND COLONEL WARDEN.

George G. Harrap, London, 1963, 2nd imp., [vi], 427pp, half tone frontis port., 22pp half tone photo ills., folding map, street plan, 2 maps and facsimiles in text, dichromatic red/black cloth with black title panel lettered and bordered in gilt at spine, based on the recollection of Cdr. C. R. Thompson, RN, Flag Lieutenant to the Board of the Admiralty when Winston Churchill was appointed First Lord in 1939 when Churchill became Prime Minister he became his personal assistant with responsibility for all the PM's travel arrangements for the remainder of the war (Col. Warden being Churchill's cover-name), living in at 10 Downing Street and at Churchill's home at Chequers and accompanying him on many of his journeys, ex public library, a little rubbed and bumped at extrems., edges tanned, code letter on spine, usual labels, pocket, stamp, etc. at front endpapers, no dustwrapper, reading copy only,