{"title":"Bernard Montgomery","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"lettre-autographe-signee-montgomery-of-alamein","title":"Autograph letter signed, Montgomery of Alamein","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"302\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"302\"\u003eMONTGOMERY, Bernard (1887–1976), Autograph Letter Signed “Montgomery of Alamein”, to John, Isington, Hampshire, 15 December 1956. 1 p. 4to.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"304\" data-end=\"785\"\u003eA fine \u003cstrong data-start=\"311\" data-end=\"324\"\u003epost-Suez\u003c\/strong\u003e letter in which Field Marshal Montgomery thanks his correspondent for the Christmas parcels and offers a strikingly candid assessment of contemporary events. After acknowledging the arrival of the gifts, Montgomery turns abruptly to the geopolitical situation, remarking that Europe has been through \u003cstrong data-start=\"625\" data-end=\"644\"\u003e“a trying time”\u003c\/strong\u003e and adding, with characteristic bluntness, that in all his experience he had \u003cstrong data-start=\"722\" data-end=\"785\"\u003e“never known anything so bungled as the Suez Canal affair.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"787\" data-end=\"954\"\u003eHe closes with warm personal wishes for the coming year and notes his intention to be in \u003cstrong data-start=\"876\" data-end=\"895\"\u003eNew York in May\u003c\/strong\u003e, hoping for a meeting to be arranged through Bill Griffin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"956\" data-end=\"1142\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\"My dear John\u003cbr\u003eI have begun to receive Christmas gift parcels from you. Tevo have arrived already. You really are most [?] to send me these each year, and I am deeply grateful. Will you tell James Keillor that they are arriving, as his name is on the parcels.\u003cbr\u003eWe have been having a trying time in Europe. In all my experience I have never known anything so bungled as the Suez Canal affair.\u003cbr\u003eMy very best wishes to you and your wife. I will be in New York in May next and will ask Bill Griffin to fix that we meet.\u003cbr\u003eyours always\u003cbr\u003eMontgomery of Alamein.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Librairie Alexis Noqué","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56534108176709,"sku":"0772","price":300.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8611\/6421\/files\/IMG_4728_jpg.jpg?v=1764719688"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.librairie-alexisnoque.fr\/en\/collections\/auteur-bernard-montgomery.oembed","provider":"Librairie Alexis Noqué","version":"1.0","type":"link"}