WHEELER-BENNETT John W. - John Anderson, Viscount Waverley. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR

Macmillan,, 1962. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates, tiny contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, red top, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE. Bright, crisp copy of the standard biography of one of the leading civil servants of his generation. Following an already extensive diplomatic career, Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, 1st Viscount Waverley (1882-1958), rose to greater promnence during WWII, serving successively as Home Secretary, Lord President of the Council and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He played an important role in the establishment of the home front, initiating the development of the well-known Anderson shelters, and gaining the nickname 'the Home Front Prime Minister'. Later in the war he headed the UK's efforts to build an atomic bomb (the 'Tube Alloys' project) and worked in close liaison with the US Manhattan Project. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett (1902-1975) was a leading conservative historian of German and diplomatic history, and official biographer of George VI. A SPLENDID PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR AND HIS WIFE RUTH RISHER.

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