The turn of the tide, 1939-1943 : a study based on the diaries and autobiographical notes of Field Marshal the Viscount Alanbrooke ...
Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant (1899–1985)
Category
Books
Date
1957
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3114725
Summary
Bibliographic description
766p. : port., maps ; 22 cm. Bookseller's ticket: R.D. Steedman, bookseller, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 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 titlepage: "With best wishes Alanbrooke F.M." [i.e. Field-Marshall Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke of Brookeborough (1883-1963)]. Binding: black publisher's cloth, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant (1899–1985), author Field-Marshall Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke of Brookeborough (1883-1963)