Souvenir typescript of "The Struggle to Rehabilitate Germany," an excerpt from The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery, eight parchment pages, 8.5 x 11, signed at the bottom of the first page in fountain pen, "Montgomery of Alamein, F.M." Offering a fascinating account of Field Marshal Montgomery's year in Germany at the end of World War II, the piece begins: "In the middle of July 1945, SHAEF was disbanded, but Eisenhower remained as C.-in-C. and Military Governor of the American Zone. I have always considered this to have been a major error on the part o£ the Western Allies. The whole of eastern Germany was one zone controlled by one man (Zhukov); we split western Germany into three separate zones, each controlled by a separate Military Governor. I hold the view that Eisenhower should have been left in overall control of the western half of Germany; we would then have confronted the Russians with a united front. We were to pay the penalty for this nationalistic self-importance." In fine condition, with mild mottled toning.
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