The memoirs of Field-Marshall the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, K.G.
Field-Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein KG, GCB, DSO (1887-1976)
Category
Books
Date
1958
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3114711
Summary
Bibliographic description
574 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 24cm. Portrait (from dust wrapper?) pasted to rear endpaper. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) with portrait: "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]). Inscribed on flyleaf: "Montgomery of Alamein F.M. / November 1958". With blotting paper folder covering. Binding: red publisher's cloth, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Field-Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein KG, GCB, DSO (1887-1976)