Item KENNEDY, JN 5/8 - Press cuttings and related papers, 1957-1958, concerning The business of war and other World War Two memoirs by senior defence personnel

File of press cuttings dealing with the publication of Kennedy's book, The business of war (Hutchinson, London, 1957), including mounted cuttings of press reviews; mounted press cuttings containing further reviews, letters and articles referring to Kennedy himself and the controversy at the time over the publication of diaries by senior World War Two defence personnel, including those of Kennedy and FM Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke of Brookeborough, contained in Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant's The turn of the tide (Collins, London, 1957); mounted cuttings of reviews from the North American press, with some associated correspondence; mounted press cuttings of the serialisation of Kennedy's book in the Evening Standard, Oct 31-13 Nov 1957 and a typescript memoir of Kennedy's time as governor of Southern Rhodesia, written by the Rt Hon Sir Robert Clarkson Tredgold, Chief Justice, Federal Supreme Court, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and forwarded to Kennedy by the Deputy Editor of the Evening Standard, 19 Nov 1957, with a comment on the success of the serialisation of Kennedy's book in the newspaper. 1 file.