BRYANT, Arthur (1899-1985). The Turn of the Tide 1939-1943, London, 1957, 8vo, original black buckram. FIRST EDITION, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. With another book by Bryant. (2)

BRYANT, Arthur Wynne Morgan (1899-1985).  The Turn of the Tide 1939-1943. A Study based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. London: Collins, April 1957. 8vo (208 x 132mm). Half title, half tone portrait frontispiece of Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke, maps, 2 full-page. Original black buckram, spine lettered in gilt (some faint white staining, without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION, third impression. ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED MAINLY IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. For example, on p.48 (commenting on the printed passage 'Not until the anxious summer of 1938 ... had the possibility of sending two of its five divisions to the Continent in the event of a German war been considered'), Eden writes: "I raised [the] matter several times while still in Govt."; on p.53 (commenting on the printed passage 'Those at home were thinking in terms, not of the swift mechanised and air warfare of the mid-twentieth century, but of the huge troglodyte armies and continuous trench-lines of twenty years before): "Were they? I was clamouring [?in] cabinet for armour"; on p.78 (commenting on Giffard Le Quesne Martel, Commander of the 50th Northumbria Division): "Very much a Winston man. Winston was always pushing him"; on p.83 (commenting on the printed passage 'Despite repeated requests for it Britain's only armoured division was still at home awaiting its long-promised equipment'): "I used to ask about it at Cabinet after Cabinet. Minutes may show this. Winston would remember; he recalled the matter to me"; on p.169 (commenting on the 'Inter-Allied plan to hold Brittany'): "De Gaulle advocated this plan. I had never understood [sic] it was approved. [Maxime] Weygand & [Alphonse Joseph] Georges were there"; on p.192 (on the formation of 'The Home Guard'): "In fact W. [Winston] had nothing whatever to do with raising of Home Guard. The plans had been made before I reached [the] W.O. I decided to make the broadcast myself & did so. W. did not [illegible word] with this matter at all until later & then [illegible word] about the name"; on p.308 (on Admiral Dudley Pound): "Splendid old boy. W. went wrong when he did not heed him - e.g. [illegible word]"; and with heavy annotation to rear endpapers, some possibly in preparation for a speech ("Tell the story of the mistaken message for invasion of Britain ...") ; and with an autograph note loosely-inserted, with one partly indecipherable note written (unusually) in ink: "Resignation speech care about Spain & not affording [?]cover to double crossing." [sic]. With the same author's Triumph in the West 1943-1946. Based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke (London, 1950, original red buckram, FIRST EDITION, without any annotation or highlighting, but with a loosely-inserted note with Eden's pencil annotation). (2)