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Dear Lives

The Memoirs of General The Lord Ismay, K.G. (Heinemann, 42s.) BY a happy combination of circumstances the supply of war memoirs seems almost as inex- haustible as the demand for them. Anyone who thought we had heard the last account from a participant in the 'conference war' must have forgotten Ismay. As Churchill's Chief Staff Officer he was present at almost every high-level gathering throughout the war; and his memoirs take us once more round the now familiar route from Casablanca to Washington to Quebec I to Cairo to Teheran to Quebec II to Yalta to Pots- dam. But Lord Ismay has another purpose beyond following the entirely reasonable military habit of selling his life dearly. He is the first man over the course since Lord Alanbrooke, and he is concerned to repair the damage which he con- siders the ex-CIGS's Diaries to have done both to Lord Alanbrooke's own reputation and to that of others.

It is Sir Winston whom Lord Ismay is anxious to defend, of course. He is a Churchill man sans phrase et sans question. 'But to me,' he writes, 'Churchill always had been, and always would be, in a class entirely by himself.' Few would quarrel with this judgment, but the degree of personal subservience to which it leads Lord Ismay (who for a short time enjoyed what should be the independent dignity of Cabinet office) is sometimes rather excessive. 'That night we dined with Sir Winston and Lady Churchill,' he writes, ending his book with a description of his return § THE WORLD OF ROME. By Michael Grant. (Weidenfelcl and Nicolson, 42s.)