MONTGOMERY, Bernard Law.

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A Collection of Personal Messages to 21 Army Group. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Montgomery on the initial blank, "To: Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary of England. B. L. Montgomery, Field-Marshal. Berlin, 29-8-45".After the Labour Party's surprise victory in the July 1945 general election, Prime Minister Attlee appointed his close ally Ernest Bevin as Foreign Secretary, allowing him significant autonomy in foreign policy decisions.Montgomery met the new Foreign Secretary at the Potsdam Conference and wrote, "I was much impressed by Bevin; he will be the power behind the throne in the new set-up" (Hamilton, p. 551). Montgomery signed this volume the day before the conference at which he joined Georgi Zhukov, Dwight Eisenhower, and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny in forming the Allied Control Council, the supreme governing authority in occupied Germany.Before major operations, Montgomery issued a printed personal message to his troops. The book, privately produced for the army group, "is a collection of all the personal messages issued by Field-Marshal Montgomery during the campaign in North-Western Europe in 1944 and 1945. They trace the course of the campaign from D-day, the 6th June, 1944, when the Allied Expeditionary Force assaulted over the beaches of Normandy, to its arrival on the shores of the Baltic early the following May. This led to the culmination of the campaign: the signature by the Germans of the Act of unconditional surrender in Berlin on the 8th M

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