[CHURCHILL'S WARTIME ASSOCIATES] HAROLD RUPERT ALEXANDER (1891-1969); HENRY MAITLAND WILSON (1881-1964); ARTHUR WILLIAM TEDDER (1890-1967); JOHN CUNNINGHAM; DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (1890-1969); LORD BEAVERBROOK (1879-1964); BERNARD LAW MONTGOMERY (1887-1976)

细节

[CHURCHILL'S WARTIME ASSOCIATES] HAROLD RUPERT ALEXANDER (1891-1969); HENRY MAITLAND WILSON (1881-1964); ARTHUR WILLIAM TEDDER (1890-1967); JOHN CUNNINGHAM; DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (1890-1969); LORD BEAVERBROOK (1879-1964); BERNARD LAW MONTGOMERY (1887-1976)
A loose 9½ x 7¼in. album leaf, signed: "H.R. Alexander. Dec 24th 1943," "H. Maitland Wilson. Dec 25/43," "A. W. Tedder. 25/12/43," "John Cunningham," "Dwight D. Eisenhower," "Beaverbrook," "B. L. Montgomery. General Eighth Army," the verso with 35 more signatures, including those of Brendan Bracken and Clementine Churchill.

来源

Mark R. Pinfield, chief steward to Winston Churchill during the war, by direct descent.

拍品专文

"On December 23rd both Eisenhower and Alexander came to see him [Churchill], to discuss details of the landing. Its aim was to lead to the capture of Rome, and an advance northward to the Pisa-Rimini line. On December 24 Churchill left his bed for the first time in two weeks, for a Christmas Eve conference with Alexander and several other Generals, Admirals and planners, about how to provide the landing-craft for Anzio in time for the target date of January 20 ... Then on Christmas Day, five Commanders-in-Chief, summoned by telegram, converged on Carthage to make the final plans for Anzio ... the landing had now become the next major Allied operation of war, and Churchill's Christmas Day conference, which he attended in his dragon dressing-gown, set the seal on its importance ... " (Martin Gilbert, Churchill. A Life, p.763-764).