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NORTHGATE HOUSE,
BISHOP'S STORTFORD,
HERTS.

No.4 (832) Coy. A.S.C.
Chelmsford

19-11-17

Dear Colonel Buchan

This is just to thank you for the
last volume of your wonderful History. As
always, when it arrives, I was impatient
for the moment when I would sit down to it
and - as always - I read it greedily
and with the most profound admiration. From
the first volume to this its eighteenth it is
among the grandest intellectual achievements
this war has produced. The narrative of
events apart, wonderfully precise and accurate
when the limitations imposed on you are