Book – Wartime exploits: Cardigan (Chandos Sydney Cedric, Ea...

Book – Wartime exploits: Cardigan (Chandos Sydney Cedric, Earl of, CStJ, DL, JP, later 7th Marquess of Ailesbury, 1904-1974), I Walked Alone, 1st edn., London, Routledge Keegan Paul, 1950, 8vo, viii + 206pp, retailer’s label ins. front pastedown Hugh Rees Ltd., 47, Pall Mall, London, SW1, bound blue boards, gilt titles to spine, MS inscr. Lancelot Oliphant/23 July 1950, MS letter on Balmoral Castle notepaper from ‘Bobbety’ (a courtier of George VI, the Most Hon. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, KG, PC 5th Marquess of Salisbury (1893-1972) a former minister under Churchill) to Lancelot Oliphant tucked in. (1) ***Sir Lancelot Oliphant KCMG, CB (1881-1965) was a senior diplomat who had served during Salisbury’s time at the Foreign Office.