WHEELER-BENNETT, John W, & Anthony Nicholls.

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The Semblance of Peace. First edition, first impression, the dedication copy to the distinguished historian William Deakin, inscribed by Wheeler-Bennett on the front free endpaper "For Bill from two of his inveterate admirers, who owe him much. Jack & Tony. May 1972". The printed dedication reads "To Bill Deakin First Warden of St Antony's College with admiration and affection".In The Semblance of Peace, the conservative historians give a history of the political settlement after the Second World War. Deakin (1913-2005) worked closely with Churchill in the 1930s and 1940s on his historical works and memoirs. During the war he led the first British mission to Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia, and his reports shaped the British government's choice of which of the various resistance movements to support. After the war he founded St Antony's College, Oxford, and served as its first warden.

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