Bolo Whistler - Montgomery to Lord Portal Presentation Copy, CIGS to Wartime Air Chief gilt decorated cloth Its concluding message

Its concluding message

Through New Guinea and the Cannibal Countries

The spine richly gilt in compartments

in the striking pictorial dust jacket

Bureau of Aeronautics officer

Bolo Whistler - Montgomery to Lord Portal Presentation Copy, CIGS to Wartime Air Chief gilt decorated cloth Its concluding messageSMYTH, Brigadier The Rt Hon Sir John Smyth, Bt, VC, MC. Bolo Whistler: The Life of General Sir Lashmer Whistler, GCB, KBE, DSO, DL. A Study in Leadership. London: Frederick Muller, 1967. First edition. Field Marshal Montgomery presentation copy to Lord Portal. First edition, first impression. A superb presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: To Peter from Bernard. The recipient was Lord Portal, known privately as Peter, wartime Chief