Item THOMPSON 2/1 - Letter from Major General Eric Dorman O'Gowan to Thompson, Feb-Dec 1960, on topics including Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery and Sir Winston Churchill

Letters from Maj Gen Eric Edward Dorman O'Gowan (formerly Eric Edward Dorman Smith) to Thompson relating to FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein and Operation SKYSCRAPER, a plan produced in 1943 for an operation in Northern France in 1944; Rt Hon. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's policies particularly between 1941 and 1943; Montgomery at Normandy; issues relating to Churchill raised in The Yankee Marlborough (Allen & Unwin, London, 1963); Churchill and the break up of the British Empire; O' Gowan's proposed libel action against Churchill in 1951; Churchill and ARCADIA, the first Washington conference Dec 1941 - Jan 1942; career and personality of FM Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell of Cyrenaica and Winchester. Also includes extracts from letters to O'Gowan from Gen Sir Bernard Charles Toiver Paget, and from Paget to O'Gowan discussing whether Churchill was liable to ignore the advice of his Chiefs of Staff ; copy of a letter from O'Gowan with his comments on The price of victory (Constable, London, 1960). 1 file